How easy it would be to fit a simple scan doubler into existing Altera chip and avoid creating a special add-on card? Just 2 kilobytes of on-chip embedded memory for storage of 2 scan lines at 8-bit color depth would be enough for horizontal resolutions up to 1024 pixels, with any vertical resolution. This would allow for refresh rates of 50 or 60 HZ on a decent multisync SVGA monitor on existing Sprinter without paying $60 for an add-on card that does essentially the same job. You probably explored such an idea, but existing Flex chip is probably already full with logic ;-)
Hint, hint -- what about a bigger pin-compatible Flex chip to replace the old one on new Sprinter boards? It would make it $5 more expensive, but not $60...
Great computer, but with cost of simple VGA output being half the cost of the rest of features, I humbly say - wrong business move that will discourage many potential buyers at least until more of the potential Hi-res video modes will be realized, not just "possible in the future".
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Re: VGA Convertor for Sprinter
[re: Alex_Goryachev]
