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Title: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: jevicac on 21:28, 11 August 17
Good afternoon, our friend HabiSoft, is testing a fpga board to give Amstrad PCW color. Here you have the link


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Do you think it deserves to create a board?
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: jevicac on 23:45, 11 August 17

Another new breakthrough from our friend HabiSoft




We can play in color any game of our Amstrad PCW
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: arnoldemu on 07:29, 12 August 17
I guess this is different to the pcw16 or the "arnold number two" in operation?
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: jevicac on 09:04, 12 August 17
The images belong to a PCW8256. This is in evidence. 16 colors can be obtained. The color change is automatic through the fpga board
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: jevicac on 00:20, 14 August 17
New Amstrad PCW 8256/8512 color captures: Match Day II & Sol Negro

Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: tjohnson on 10:28, 14 August 17
nice looks like cga
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: jevicac on 15:27, 14 August 17
The soft opera games have their graphics ported just like PC-CGA
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: jevicac on 21:45, 14 August 17
New color captures: Strip Poker- A gift for my friend Robcfg.
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: robcfg on 22:27, 14 August 17
Haaaaahahaaa!

The pictures look good, actually... [emoji23]


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Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: JonB on 09:07, 15 August 17
Sabrina and Samantha don't look very comfortable lying on the floor..
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: ||C|-|E|| on 09:22, 15 August 17
The board looks actually great!  :) On the other hand, I can only wonder what kind of hardcore solo-party lover would find that Strip Poker videogame sexually arousing. It probably had its audience, though.
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: jevicac on 11:00, 15 August 17
Our friend HabiSoft prepares the new version of the emulator CP/M Box for PCW's color. Some images.


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Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: Gryzor on 10:22, 16 August 17
Impressive stuff :)
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: arnoldemu on 13:45, 16 August 17
is there information about how this interface operates?
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: robcfg on 13:51, 16 August 17
It's still in development, but basically takes the video signal as a bitstream and every two bits give 1 of 4 color or every 4 bits give 1 of 16 colors.

Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: arnoldemu on 14:01, 16 August 17
Quote from: robcfg on 13:51, 16 August 17
It's still in development, but basically takes the video signal as a bitstream and every two bits give 1 of 4 color or every 4 bits give 1 of 16 colors.
When I looked at the pictures I did think it was done this way. In some of the pictures it is obvious there was some automatic method being used, because some looked like colours from "artifacts" showing hi-res pictures on a ntsc/pal display (same way PC does it).

Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: robcfg on 14:03, 16 August 17
It's also easy to see that the graphics were ported from CGA or EGA versions.
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: RockRiver on 16:32, 17 December 19
More info about Colour PCW
Please use translator (spanish forum)


http://amstrad.es/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4809 (http://amstrad.es/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4809)


Habi CP/M Box emu with PCW Color option:


http://www.habisoft.com/pcw/ (http://www.habisoft.com/pcw/)



Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: GUNHED on 13:57, 30 May 21
Well, now. Is there actually a mod that converts a PcW into a color computer?
(Saw this for the emulator, not for the real PcW). Can somebody enlighten me please?  :)
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: robcfg on 14:18, 30 May 21
Long story short, it's possible to have a board connected to the expansion port with a cpld/fpga that interprets the black and white pixels as binary numbers which are indices into a programmable color table.


So, if you take every 2 pixels, you get 4 colors and half the horizontal resolution, and if you take 4 pixels, then you can have 16 colors and a quarter of the horizontal resolution.


Oh, and he added a 360x256x16 video mode using color attributes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUr_meyH_g
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: GUNHED on 15:53, 30 May 21
Does somebody produce / sell this GFX cards for the expansion port?
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: robcfg on 16:29, 30 May 21
No one as far as I know.


@Habi (https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1314) did the design but I'm not sure if he finished/published it.


Time to ask him  ;D
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: GUNHED on 17:00, 31 May 21
Dear @Habi (https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1314) : Can you please enlighten us?
Title: Re: Amstrad PCW to color
Post by: RockRiver on 10:22, 20 June 21
maybe you could try FPGA... (MISTer board: PCW core with audio AY and Color)

https://youtu.be/z-IoDr81xjE (https://youtu.be/z-IoDr81xjE)

I want PCW Color too... (on my real PCW)
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