Timing is everything..

Actually, that’s only half the story..

Been a while since I posted so I figured I’d give y’all a bit of an update. While I’m still waiting for my PCB’s and SMT parts I’ve been beavering away on an NTSC composite color core. I’ve got some color-bars showing up but still need to find the proper voltage levels, which seems to throw off some of the colors ( like yellow ). Maybe it’s because I’m using 5% tolerance resistors.. Meh, we’ll see… Ordered some 1% just in case though..

Anyway, if/when I get it to work it should be able to display 512 colors on-screen ( 3:3:3 ) which isn’t all that great, but if it was enough for Sega, it’s enough for me

The nice thing though, is that all the encoding is done in software and saves you a chip! With my new goal being to create an NTSC game console on a single XS1-L, this should bring that one step closer to reality…

w00t!