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VDP to TFT Converter

For afficionados of 80s home computers. Takes the output from a TMS9928 VDP and directly drives a TFT over parallel or SPI

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This project was created on 01/07/2023 and last updated 3 years ago.

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This was a quick hack with a Nucleo board to see if I could sample the output from a TMS9928 and use it to drive a TFT using nothing but a cheap STM32 MCU.

Now I know it works, the question is what shall I do with it?

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