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The Retrobrew VDU board

A project log for STEbus 6845/6803 video board

Reverse engineering a colour graphics video board

keithKeith 02/12/2021 at 18:450 Comments

Another 80-column text-only board.

https://retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php?id=boards:ecb:vdu:start

I heard of an ECB-to-STE bus interface, though this is not published on the web.
If it exists, it would be a handy way of prototyping STEbus versions of ECB boards.

I'm not keen on this design, because there is no direct access to a memory mapped screen. You can tell because there are no video memory address multiplexers. While this might be fine as a teletype terminal, it might be rather slow for things like games.

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