Output video from the NC100 to serial

[Baracus]

The NC100 has a function that dump the content of the screen buffer on a file; basically a way to create screenshots.

This is cool but not really that useful for most part; so I was thinking if there was a way to redirect the video output to serial port, so I could connect the NC100 to something like a linux machine and use it with the output going to the screen of the linux machine instead of the screen of the NC100.

This is for 2 reasons: first is to get a better resolution than the one you get from the onboard LCD, and second is that if the LCD break, I can continue to use the device as is with its software, but with the output going to another computer via serial port. Anyone tried this?

[zgedneil]

ZCN can do this for text (only) if you do "|s". The obvious problem with doing it graphically is that the serial port is too slow for it to be practical. Even at 19200 bps a full 480x64 NC100 screen would take 2 seconds to send.

[genesis8]

The parallel port should be faster than serial port, like it was on PC to transfer files with the msdos program whose name I forgot (or laplink).

[zgedneil]

Well, in principle you could have some sort of custom hardware on the memory card slot I suppose, which could presumably manage higher transfer rates with suitable software. But it would take a lot of effort to get something like that working, for not much gain given that emulators exist.