At 4:42 PM 11/5/96, Ray Ghanbari wrote:
>Some kick off questions for the Cinematronics list:
[...]
>Does anyone have schematics for the Boxing Bugs color translator board?
Bill La Couvara is sending me his Boxing Bugs boardset and the schematics
sometime this week. I've already done the background work on the DAC-80's
and I'll fax the schematics to whoever needs them...
>Fabricate a generic PCB that can take input from any cinematronics vector PCB
>and output signals in a form suitable for Atari vector monitors. Question is
>whether the 64 level intensity board should be incorporated into the
>translator board reproductions.
My first reaction would be to include the intensity feature in the form of
a DAC0800 (or 1408, or DAC08, or whatever you want to call it). Use a mux
to switch between either the top 6 most significant bits for intensity
based games, or the top lines tied together for "mono-intensity" games.
I'm thinking of the MAX503 (I think that's the one) for the D/A. 12 bit,
parallel load, +-10V output, +5 supply, and two free samples from Maxim
free for the asking... ;-)
-Clay
Clayton N. Cowgill Engineering Manager
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