(This article is part of the The Fabric of Computing series: in search of simplicity)
Here is a fun project, created from start to finish by Matthias Koch, as part of his Mecrisp implementation of Forth:
What you’re seeing is a Nandland Go Board running Mecrisp-Ice, generating a VGA 512-colour video signal on a 7” LCD display.
In itself, this is no big deal. The generated pattern is a 16x16 expanded pixel image, and 640x480 displays are pretty basic by now - although they’re fine for presenting text-mode information and retro games.
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