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Other Portable Consoles => Ben Nanonote => Topic started by: wejp on May 04, 2011, 05:59:45 pm

Title: VGA output (1024x768) on the Ben Nanonote
Post by: wejp on May 04, 2011, 05:59:45 pm

As it is rather quiet here in this section, I thought it couldn't hurt to mention an interesting project I have read (http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2011-April/007878.html) about. There is this little breakout board for the MicroSD slot of the Ben Nanonote available and people are starting to do hardware hacks with it. A very interesting one is the UBB-VGA (http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/UBB-VGA) project.

With a rather simple circuitry (looks like a simple D/A converter built with some resistors) and some fancy software, it is possible to output high resolution graphics to a VGA monitor. I think although it is all still work in progress, it is already quite impressive.

(http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/ubb/vga/ubb-vga2-prototype.jpg)
(http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/ubb/vga/ubb-vga-dual-screen.jpg)

Title: Re: VGA output (1024x768) on the Ben Nanonote
Post by: mortys on May 05, 2011, 10:31:51 am

Great news indeed.
But what we need, I think, is the dosbox port from Slaanesh. With it, NN will be a very good little Portable (old) PC.
and with the VGA extension...

Title: Re: VGA output (1024x768) on the Ben Nanonote
Post by: Solstice on May 09, 2011, 04:25:45 pm

Looks cool! Slaanesh hasnt been around for like 1 year  :( i hope he returns some time