smz@tove.cs.umd.edu (Zakar) (12/26/90)
I have an old Magic digitizer that works fine on my Mac512KE. The software (apparently) converts a 768x480 8-bit grayscale image to a B & W patterned image that fits on the screen. It seems to me that if I knew the handshaking that goes on between the Mac and the digitizer, I could hook it to a MacII, write some code, and display it in true 8-bit grayscale. My question(s): Has anyone tried this? If not, does anyone know what the handshaking looks like? If not, does anyone know of a disassembler that outputs to a file so I can reverse engineer the information? Joe Zakar using smz@tove.cs.umd.edu
berger@iboga (Mike Berger) (01/03/91)
smz@tove.cs.umd.edu (Zakar) writes: > I have an old Magic digitizer that works fine on my Mac512KE. The >software (apparently) converts a 768x480 8-bit grayscale image to a B & W >patterned image that fits on the screen. It seems to me that if I knew >the handshaking that goes on between the Mac and the digitizer, I could >hook it to a MacII, write some code, and display it in true 8-bit grayscale. >My question(s): Has anyone tried this? If not, does anyone know what the >handshaking looks like? If not, does anyone know of a disassembler that >outputs to a file so I can reverse engineer the information? *---- I don't know if the manufacturer is still in business, but at one time they offered the source code for reading digitizer output for $ 25. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu