On Thursday 02 October 2008 05:27, Gordon J. C. Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
  On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 00:02 -0400, Roy J. Tellason
wrote:
  I've also been curious for some time as to
how one could "pick off" a
 specific scan line to get at whatever data was in there,  so if that
 circuit is online anyplace I'd be interested in taking a look at it,
 even if it's not precisely the same thing. 
 Detect vsync then count hsync pulses.  Or, if you can make it accurate
 and stable enough, a monostable. 
Maybe my grasp of current and recent signal processing techniques is a little
too tenouous.  My recollection of vertical sync is the composite sync pulses
fed into an integrator which put out a fairly rounded waveform,  giving
a "start of sync" point that was fairly ambiguous.  Maybe I oughta study up
on that there digital stuff.  :-)
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