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SiriusHardware · 24th Jun 2022, 9:59 pm

Thanks for trying that as I don't know anyone else with a still working original VDU to try it out. Tim(bucus) has one of the Czech SOC VDU replicas, but still to be built as far as I know. It's a pity I don't really understand the SOC VDU circuit, maybe it would be possible to stretch the length of every eighth graphics pixel somehow - I think every eighth pixel being slightly wider would be less noticeable than that thin vertical black line.

As mentioned before Karen Orton's 'Ortonview' (PIC based Hardware emulator of the SOC VDU) ironically does not have this defect and produces beautiful sharp images with no gaps between bytes.

24th Jun 2022, 9:59 pm	#85
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,587	Re: Yet another MK14 tape interface (ESP32). Thanks for trying that as I don't know anyone else with a still working original VDU to try it out. Tim(bucus) has one of the Czech SOC VDU replicas, but still to be built as far as I know. It's a pity I don't really understand the SOC VDU circuit, maybe it would be possible to stretch the length of every eighth graphics pixel somehow - I think every eighth pixel being slightly wider would be less noticeable than that thin vertical black line. As mentioned before Karen Orton's 'Ortonview' (PIC based Hardware emulator of the SOC VDU) ironically does not have this defect and produces beautiful sharp images with no gaps between bytes.