VGA driver & app for BLOCKLY PROP

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• Publison Posts: 12,366

  2018-05-20 19:05

  No VGA drivers that I know of. Most are simple serial protocols. I have not heard of anyone working on VGA.
  
  
  

  

  

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• Peter Jakacki Posts: 10,193

  2018-05-21 00:59 edited 2018-05-21 01:03

  Seeing that Tachyon has VGA built-in along with FAT32 and all kinds of device drivers and ping/sensors/RTC/keypads/displays/pwm etc in a standard Prop, it is a shame that Blocky doesn't compile to Tachyon source code. It would open up a whole new world for the P1 and Blockly as to what could be done with very little effort. I mean Block code that says "12 HIGH" or "12 LOW" is actually what the source looks like in Tachyon but pause(1000) is actually "1 s" or "1000 ms"
  
  Actually you can even type "#PIN12 LOW" and that works too
• AwesomeCronk Posts: 1,055

  2018-05-22 00:20

  I believe it may be possible to apply for a new block. Chip or someone else said that the C code would need to be submitted as well, so you would have to find a C language VGA driver to submit as block code(or write your own!).
• Ken Gracey Posts: 7,386

  2018-05-22 03:57

  It's entirely possible because we have this as a starting point https://learn.parallax.com/tutorials/language/propeller-c/propeller-c-simple-devices/vga-text-display
  
  Please go to https://github.com/parallaxinc/BlocklyProp/issues and submit a request. We're making monthly BlocklyProp updates this summer.
  
  Ken Gracey
• MattMatz Posts: 87

  2018-07-01 05:19

  This is on my wish list, but I was hoping to go beyond what's in the c library for VGA...if I knew enough about PASM/SPIN to make the c VGA library awesomer...
  
  Anyone want to take that on? Even if it was low res - it would be great if I could get pixel-level access to the VGA/NTSC stuff, because then I could easily make OLED-like blocks for them.