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Bare-metal Raspberry Pi project that provides pixel-perfect sampling of Retro Computer RGB/YUV video and conversion to HDMI

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2019-02-10 · latest 2025-01-22

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  1. …something close-ish to spec. For more exotic video signals you can use devices like the RGBtoHDMI: https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI It decodes the input signal into a framebuffer and uses the Raspberry Pi's video core to output the…
    comment by komadori · 2025-01-22 · in Minimal 64x4 Home Computer
  2. Not the same thing but there is this project that does digital rgb to hdmi using a pi https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI I believe they use a custom firmware on the pi and a CPLD, but you could probably eliminate that doing hdmi to hdmi.
    comment by Suppafly · 2024-07-08 · in Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)
  3. …converter and makes an Amiga 500 have HDMI output. But I think the FPGA Amigas are also very cool. https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/wiki There's also a mod where you put a raspberry pi on top of the CPU, replacing the 68000 7 MHz CPU…
    comment by actionfromafar · 2024-01-30 · in The Amiga as a computer built to last 50 years (2022)
  4. You're looking for these: https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI - HDMI adaptor - works nicely with the beeb https://www.gotekemulator.com/ - Floppy emulator that lets it use USB storage There are similar addons that can use things like the…
    comment by richm44 · 2022-10-06 · in Pimp My BBC Micro
  5. https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/wiki $5-10 pi + $3 cpld + some comparators and a DAC for the analog addon https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/wiki/Bill-of-Materials...
    comment by rasz · 2022-04-12 · in Medusa is a device that allows connecting of old computers to modern displays
  6. See also the RGBtoHDMI: https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/wiki
    comment by foodstances · 2022-04-11 · in Medusa is a device that allows connecting of old computers to modern displays
  7. https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI Up to 12 bits per pixel digital RGB, CGA/EGA/Amiga/other 8bit computers and some 8/16bit consoles, to HDMI converter. Written in bare metal ARM. Sampling pixels at 96MHz clock for pixel perfection.…
    comment by rasz · 2021-01-22 · in Ask HN: What are some of the coolest Raspberry Pi projects that you've seen?