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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2009, 03:15:42 AM »
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Why doesn't AGA version have this capability?


I'd bet it's because you can't piggyback the AGA versions like you can the ECS ones.

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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2009, 04:10:00 AM »
That's great news! applicable to all ECS systems!
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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2009, 04:22:35 AM »
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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2009, 04:28:00 AM »
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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2009, 04:57:49 AM »
That's rather impressive :D

Dual head ECS. Who would have thought it? Well, Jens did, obviously, but who else?

When I first got the BVision, I didn't set up the 56kHz audio hack and could still use AGA screens alongside the RTG output. It was actually quite handy for things like fullscreen spectrum emulators :)
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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2009, 08:16:42 AM »
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Indeed, Indivision ECS contains a full Denise and does NOT use the original Denise video output. We're snooping the chip bus on the Denise-input-side.

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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #20 on: August 26, 2009, 08:23:31 AM »
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Very cool, will you be able to drag-and drop between monitors?  How about run one monitor in a different resolution to the other one?  You could then have a 50hz PAL game running on one and have a productivity application open on the other @ 1024x768 ;)

I would be surprised to find the functionality of dragging from one monitor to another, but THAT would be very cool indeed.  But is it as cool since it is only on ECS computers, not AGA?

Still, Jens keeps coming out with one cool Amiga add-on after another and I will probably buy at least one of them if not two or more.  Having two for different Amiga computers I could test out the multiple monitor displays on one Amiga by borrowing one of the ECS Indivisions from one Amiga and placing both in another Amiga.

Way to go Jens, you keep Amiga computing interesting and it just keeps getting better.  I love my two Indivisions for my A1200 and A4000.

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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2009, 08:27:59 AM »
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I'd bet it's because you can't piggyback the AGA versions like you can the ECS ones.

DIP makes everything so simple.


Correct - the ECS version is a totally different idea. While the AGA version takes it's video data from the Lisa output, the ECS version had to take all data from the "other side" of the chip, as mentioned above. The reason for that was the dirty SHires output of the ECS denise, which is drifting a lot over temperature. There was no way of sampling the Denise output without having to add an adjustment screw.

Such an adjustment screw was not an option - I wanted the product to be compatible without the retro-like pixel flickering that is caused by a bad adjustment. The only way to get around that was to implement a full Denise, as the chip bus runs at a stable 3.5MHz, and it doesn't drift over temperature too much.

That said, it should be clear how we're splitting the screen: Imagine two Denise chips taking the same data, but turning it into different pictures. Although the actual implementation is different, you can imagine one Denise using bitplanes 0 and 1, while the other Denise is taking bitplanes 2 and 3. This can of course only work if the resolution is the same on both screens.

Reality is slightly differnt, as we have the advantage of the full frame buffer and detailed knowledge about the mouse pointer position (chip registers are 100% known to the FPGA), but we do NOT intend to write a WB emulation. Everything must look to the Amiga OS as if it's a single monitor. In this case, it's just twice as wide.

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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2009, 08:43:28 AM »
Next step, the rest of the chipset :)

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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #23 on: August 26, 2009, 09:04:03 AM »
/me waiting for a 16-bit Paula :)

2 Paula's piggybacked = 8 channels!!!
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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2009, 10:22:19 AM »
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/me waiting for a 16-bit Paula :)

2 Paula's piggybacked = 8 channels!!!


8 channels isn't really that useful, since the Amiga only has two physical outputs, 2 16bit channels would have been much more useful.

But since Paula never received an upgrade no software was ever written to take advantage of better audio, so any upgrade to Paula would be a waste of time.

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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2009, 10:36:49 AM »
16-bit audio software was written decades ago.  It is just waiting for a 16-bit Paula.
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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #26 on: August 26, 2009, 10:53:28 AM »
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16-bit audio software was written decades ago.  It is just waiting for a 16-bit Paula.

So you'll write drivers for this new 16-bit Paula?
 

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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2009, 11:47:17 AM »
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But since Paula never received an upgrade no software was ever written to take advantage of better audio, so any upgrade to Paula would be a waste of time.

Oh, I dunno. I quite like the idea of a replacement that is register compatible with Paula but extends it with a few extra features. It would be cool if the incoming sample data was internally upsampled to 16/24-bits 44/48kHz, with optional interpolation per channel. In addition you could have a pan register for each channel. Digital output would be very nice too.

Even if all you had to start with was a global "mixer" tool that could bang these new registers directly to globally set the interpolation/panning of each channel it would be better than nothing.
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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2009, 11:59:15 AM »
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Oh, I dunno. I quite like the idea of a replacement that is register compatible with Paula but extends it with a few extra features. It would be cool if the incoming sample data was internally upsampled to 16/24-bits 44/48kHz, with optional interpolation per channel. In addition you could have a pan register for each channel. Digital output would be very nice too.

Even if all you had to start with was a global "mixer" tool that could bang these new registers directly to globally set the interpolation/panning of each channel it would be better than nothing.


yeah it's a nice idea, and the old longing for such a thing is strong... But honestly, a cheap Audio DSP chip off the shelf would be soooooooooo much better it is scary!

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Re: IndivisionECS will have dual video output!
« Reply #29 from previous page: August 26, 2009, 12:33:23 PM »
I think I read somewhere that Paula is a 16 bit chip with 8 bit DACs so that it actually loads 2 8 bit samples at a time.  I am not sure if this is anything useful, though.  Perhaps a Paula 16 AHI driver could be written?  This might also lower the sampling rate of the chip since it achieves 28KHz 8-bit maybe the max would be 14KHz 16-bit (yuck)