VGA adapters for these machines are inexpensive and easy to find, but VGA itself is a slowly dying standard. Video Platypus could also be a converter or upscaler for the Mac II series and later machines. Another possibility is sniffing the address and data bus to watch for CPU writes to the framebuffer region of main memory, then use that to construct a new video signal. One approach is to directly tap the CRT video and synchronization signals and resample/convert them to a standard format. I’ve discussed a few potential methods for doing this before. This might be a way of providing video out for compact Macs like the Plus and SE. These are all tied loosely into vintage Macintosh hardware, although other ideas of interest to the general Arduino/RPi audience would be nice too. While these were meant as a joke, they got me thinking about what exactly a “Video Platypus” and friends might do, and I’m outlining some possibilities below. Yesterday’s post mentioned some hypothetical marsupial-themed hardware: WiFi Wallaby, Video Platypus, and others. Steve on Floppy Emu Disk Emulator for Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa.contiguous on Floppy Emu Disk Emulator for Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa.Matt on US Customs Export Control Says: I’m Screwed.Stephen Arsenault on Eject Motor Gearbox Autopsy.Floppy Emu Disk Emulator for vintage Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa
