Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie music tricks crossover

[Philip Pemberton]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Those were the days... sadly I got rid of my teletext units late last 
> year before moving - they'd be even less useful in the US than they were 
> in the UK!

I've got a Ground Control / Solidisk "Universal Teletext Adapter" kicking 
around somewhere. It's a nifty little box that contains a Mullard UHF tuner, 
A/V demodulator (the Aux connector carries composite video and mono audio) and 
a Philips Teletext decoder chip. The digital interface is I2C -- the stock 
software communicates over the User Port, but I've got other software that 
will talk over the Podule bus's I2C port. I've actually got an A3000 (again, 
*somewhere*) and a RiscPC backplane that have been modified to feed the I2C 
signal to the "outside world" so I could wire up the UTA...

> I don't think anyone's mentioned program data stored on Laserdisc 
> (Domesday etc.) yet...

Let me see if I can remember this correctly..

The Domesday system was a Master Turbo with a SCSI card, wired up to a A 
Philips VP412 Laserdisc player that had been modified to add a SCSI interface 
and a chroma-keyed genlock. The Master could boot off the LD, load the 
software, then play back a video clip, still image or what have you.

Then there were a few arcade games that used Laserdiscs for cutscenes and 
such, but I suspect those are off-topic for cc{talk,tech}.

-- 
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/