Flash Point App: TV Bitmap viewer
Finally put the finishing touches on the first real app for the Flash Point memory modules, a Windows bitmap viewer.
Here's a photo of the Prop showing a 152x192 pixel bitmap in "full color" mode:

Even though the image is ~29kB (almost the size of all of HUB RAM), the program to show the image is only 4kB.
This leaves lots of room for more code.
It is possible to put up to 64 of this size image on the FPS.
Or, you can put one very tall image!
See the attached zip file for a video clip showing a scrolling 152x6192 pixel bitmap of the flags of all 50 states.
The source files to do this are now on the Flash Point web page.
Here's a photo of the Prop showing a 152x192 pixel bitmap in "full color" mode:

Even though the image is ~29kB (almost the size of all of HUB RAM), the program to show the image is only 4kB.
This leaves lots of room for more code.
It is possible to put up to 64 of this size image on the FPS.
Or, you can put one very tall image!
See the attached zip file for a video clip showing a scrolling 152x6192 pixel bitmap of the flags of all 50 states.
The source files to do this are now on the Flash Point web page.
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OBC
For anything approximating real video, SD or maybe SDRAM would have to be the source because you'd need a lot of capacity.
But, using a couple RamPage modules as a pair of buffers might make sense...
Then, you could think about compressing the video in some way...
OBC
It's a simple fix though and I've already done it for the Spin driver, just need to upload it tonight.
Problem is that if you don't use a Prop pin to supply power, you don't know if the chip is in SPI mode or SQI mode at startup...
My current fix is to try reading the JEDEC in SQI mode first and then proceed with SPI initialization if that fails.
Want to do a bit more testing this time before posting the fixed driver...
OBC