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IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering
- bitwize 4mo agoA fucking built-in genlock? For years I thought only Amigas had those!
- ggm 4mo agoPut on the die, but only expose on the $$$$ builds using it?
- fredoralive 4mo agoThe article mentions that it is brought out to the connector, multiplexed with the monitor ID pins.
- skissane 4mo agoMaybe it's buggy or something? Unreliable? Use causes overheating or RF interference issues? Maybe IBM added it for project X, and then project X got cancelled, and everyone else forgot it was ever there...
- fredoralive 4mo agoIt’s interesting that the gate arrays are supplied by Seiko, and the only known MCGA systems apart from IBM are from Epson. The bit of Seiko that made the gate arrays appears to be… Seiko Epson. So is it a coincidence? Sub-licensing? Skullduggery?
- andrewshadura 4mo agoNot sure what you're trying to say. The full name of Epson is Seiko Epson.
- fredoralive 4mo agoSeiko can cover a fairly large group of companies, Seiko Epson is a particular subgroup of it (now somewhat detached from the main group).
- bananaboy 4mo agoWow this is amazing work!
- pavlov 4mo ago[flagged]