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The
ACRTC Board |
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The following
short programs are written in Tiny BASIC and illustrate some of the
hardware accelerated drawing capabilities of the Hitachi HD63484 Advanced CRT
Controller on the ACRTC Board. |
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Hardware
Requirements |
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Mega 68000 or
68030 Computer System with 1x free expansion slot |
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Standard VGA
monitor |
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* Plug the ACRTC
Board into the expansion slot |
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* Connect the VGA
monitor to the ACRTC Boards DE-15 interface |
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Software
Requirements |
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System ROM V2.04
or later |
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Tiny BASIC for
ACRTC V1.2 or later |
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ACRTC - Graphics Demo1 |
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The demo
below draws random lines. |
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Download: |
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2. |
Use a
text editor to open the downloaded file |
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Highlight and copy ALL the text within the file |
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Launch
Tiny BASIC for ACRTC |
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'Ready' appears |
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5. |
Paste
the copied text into the terminal window |
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The
program will download
and run |
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Unable to
download? |
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Some internet browsers
may display the files contents rather
than download the file, if so use the following keyboard
shortcuts to select ALL the text in the browser window and copy
it to the Windows clipboard. |
| CTRL+A
(Select All) |
| CTRL+C
(Copy) |
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Using Windows
Notepad (or equivalent) create
a
new empty text document and paste the
copied text into the document using the following
shortcut. |
| CTRL+P
(Paste) |
| Now save the
document and to avoid confusion later name it
the same as the download name. |
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