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Summary of Contents for Flashvvriter II

Page 1: ...Flashvvriter IT Users GUide ___ LO l CS lAi l iC inC...

Page 2: ...FLASHWRITER II BOARD Manual Revision 3 March 29 1979 Copyright 1979 Vector Graphic Inc...

Page 3: ...sion Numbers The revision number and date of release of each page herein appears at the bottom of each page The revision number and date of release on the Title Page corresponds to that of the page mo...

Page 4: ...G H Ii F H I I 1 C for sue h rep air l C placement r cOI recti on In 1 F rforIl lily any rCi air reFlacelii0nt cr correction after expiration uL r tH lJerioJ set forth above 8uj or iJl be charged in...

Page 5: ...n J Creating a New Character Set 1 2 Changing the Address of Video rVje cy 3 P 1tting a Monitor PROf on the BOEd C 3 100 Address of the Monitor PROM on the 30 a i d t c _ 0 r _ j 3 1 G 3 1 7 3 L8 3 1...

Page 6: ...gnal 3 10 3 3 Adjustin 1 Your TV Monitor 3 10 3 4 Connecting the Board to the Video Display and the Keyboard 3 11 3 4 1 Connecting a Video Display Requiring Separate Sync and Video 3 12 3 4 2 Connecti...

Page 7: ...programmable PROMs storing the character set on board socket for a video driver and or Monitor Jump on Reset capability to be used if the on board video driver socket is used the availability of inver...

Page 8: ...is partly due to the fact that Flashwriter II does not have a separate memory block containing character attributes In Flashwriter II there are no special vertical and horizontal lines outside of tho...

Page 9: ...d data onto the bus at the appropriate time Both inverted and non inverted status are available for keyboard drivers using different conventions The vertical blanking signal is also available from the...

Page 10: ...al address inputs 80 is divisible by 16 so the least significant 4 bits from U29 are applied directly to the memory address inputs The remaining 3 hor izon tal counter ou tpu ts H4 H6 and the vertical...

Page 11: ...ASCII character set the most significant memory bit is not required This is normally jumpered to U7 pin 12 to control the reverse video If the 256 character set is used this bit is connected to U22 pi...

Page 12: ...n board Monitor ROM at address O If the first three instructions of the ROM are JMP XX03 where XXOO is the normal ROM address then when the system is powered on or the reset key is depressed these ins...

Page 13: ...nsists of page 4 1 PROI LJ2 st stores the l st 2 1 addresses on U22 cel 1 come the second J 1 0 i eighth line of characters wit Me en I E c 1 L rj I f yo 11 wi s h t ere j j p pair of PROH s t CO e 1...

Page 14: ...as follows for a 256 character set 128 character set Area I 2 1 Area B 2 4 3 1 Area E 1 3 2 5 256 character set Cut 2 1 1 L 3 4 Cut 2 4 Cut 3 1 1 3 Cut 2 5 2 4 3 1 2 Changing the Address of the Video...

Page 15: ...ov ided on the board for a Moni tor and or VideG j i PIWM the chip used can be either a lK or 2K chip i e c 27C Cil 2716 respectively The board is shipped to accept a lK r i vj Q determined by the jum...

Page 16: ...pped to output an inverted vertical sync signal as required by the V2ctor Graphic Mindless Terminal If you are usiny a v ideo mon i cor wh ler requires a non i nverted vertical sync s iynal then cut t...

Page 17: ...rt See section 3 2 3 1 12 Supplying a Keyboard with a Negative Voltage Power Supply If you have a keyboard which requires a negative voltage power supply in addition to the SV and you are technically...

Page 18: ...I board is through the use of the Vector Graphic Extended Systems Monitor Version 3 Option EV II or CV II This program comes on a PROM to be installed in position 8 on the Vector Graphic 12K PROM RAM...

Page 19: ...ster This is sometimes called sending a character to the driver This is the method used by all Vector Graphic operating system software such as MDOS and MZOS to display characters By itself this can o...

Page 20: ...o 9 Far erev e r s e vi d eo ve r s ion s 0 f those frcm 30 F 3i ilarily if you display a character having a cede from A to P will be the reverse video version of normal alph6n rne lc cj3 3c e iro 20...

Page 21: ...an send the character Control T 14 Hex to the video driver This is how the method given in the first paragraph of this section works Control T toggles reverse video so that any characters sent after i...

Page 22: ...d to ut il i ze every 1 i ne of the TV ra s te r picture Therefore some adjustment of the TV monitor is usually required to make all of the characters visible on the screen Other adjustments may also...

Page 23: ...sides of the isplaYI it will c c E o L y c j st the iIDTH control Some newer sets do r c t h E v Ti rol If you are elec Cronically oriented yOLl can ha lcJ c 30 oJ _Lav S Y u can instal L a choke in...

Page 24: ...y Requiring Separate Sy c_ Access pins 2 3 4 and 5 of J2 The cable supplied with the Vector Graphic Mindless Terminal comes with an appropriate socket attached If you have ordered the Vector Graphic M...

Page 25: ...ard The following diagram shows the pin assignments DATA 1 DATA 3 v OPT PRESET STROBE vee 5V DATA 5 DATA 8 DATA 2 DATA 7 DATA 6 DATA 4 GND The cable shipped with the Vector Graphic Mindless Terminal h...

Page 26: ...00000080 O OoOO Go 0 0 000 00 o o DO Uo o mo o oo 0 OC008aoo 0000000 00 0000000000 DoSOOOOoooD 0 0000008 000 000000 0200 00 JoO ODOOoo o ooooCDo DoOCooGODo ooooooooo 000000000 00000 00 0 00000 00 0 00...

Page 27: ...07 D DO i07 DO i07 DO j I I I 1 0 0 0 C 1 H 0000 100U ooooeooo 00000000 DOCSOCOG 00 C c 00 or ICC 00 00000000 00000000 ooooooou ooDonOOD OCCfJO O OO J80COO OODOC OOO OOOOOO O OUUODOOC 00000080 oaDODc...

Page 28: ...ODC CCGC Jccco ccc c csc cOO Jccc coo ccccO Jcccc ccccccoo m CCDOOCC O OOOODSCCO oCC JCGCCCO 080ClC080 C OCC CoOSO J J Coocoo C OCOOO JO co ocoscco oooc oooc OODcOC DOC sc scCS lQO 2C OO JC OO JC ccO...

Page 29: ...S lOC JOC O GGCCCCO OO I008CO CCO COOOOOQoaa JCJCOC COO OOODC CCCJ OOC C lOCCOO 1CCOO 2 C 0 ClO jCCJCco JO ococoocooc OCOCCl JOOOO cr J Ji 1 Jr c C l r JCI i r11 r rJ J 2 l J C t r cc J 17 _ _r _ J _...

Page 30: ...RCUITRY OSC VIDEO VIDEO OUTPUTS COMBINER V SYNC CIRCUITRY SHIFT W REGISTER I ADDRESS BUS _ MEMORY ADDRESS MULTI PLEXER CHARACTER GENERATOR f DATA 2 K X 8 BUS MEMORY LATCH ARRAY KEYBOARD INPUT PORT MON...

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