{"id":205,"date":"2021-03-03T22:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/?p=205"},"modified":"2021-03-05T23:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:31:58","slug":"vidhd-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/2021\/03\/03\/vidhd-card\/","title":{"rendered":"VidHD card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you might have noticed, I&#8217;m into my new old Apple IIe computer lately.&nbsp; Together with the Apple IIe I bought a monochrome Apple monitor. And although it\u2019s working fine, and\u2019s it needed to complete the set, I will not be using it on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought a VidHD card from Blue Shift. Half a year ago I registered to be notified when the next batch of cards would be produced. And about 3 weeks ago I\u2019ve got a notice from them. I promptly ordered one. Shipping and handling took some time though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"304\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vidhd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vidhd.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vidhd-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you wonder\u2026 what is that card about? Well, the card lets you connect your Apple II II+, IIe or IIGS to a 1080P monitor or TV. <br>It\u2019s a rather unique card in that it\u2019s all digital. The output is upscaled directly from the byte values written into the Apple\u2019s video memory. It just monitors write operations to memory\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The card consists of 2 combined single board computers in one apple II card. One is used for generating the HDMI output (an orange PI), and the second contains a microcontroller which handles the signals from the apple II and translates them to something the other card can process. This all, to construct a video signal that can be displayed on a modern monitor or tv. It work for PAL and NTSC Apple II\u2019s.<br><br><strong>And as you think of it<\/strong>: You put an SBC having a quad-core 1.2Ghz Cortex A7 cpu running the Linux kernel into an Apple II running a 6502 1Mhz, just to grab it\u2019s screen memory and display it on a modern monitor. <br>All of that to just run \u2018old\u2019 vintage software at incredibly slow speeds. I&#8217;ts a vidiocard of it&#8217;s own sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yes, another step on the way of using my new old Apple IIe computer. Pure nostalgia! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want one too? The only thing you can do is mail <a href=\"mailto:vidhd@blueshiftinc.com\">vidhd@blueshiftinc.com<\/a>&nbsp; and express your interest. You will get an invitation to order when stock is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See one in action in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ehQpC2-NEBM\">this video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#88 Apple II in 1080p?! The VidHD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ehQpC2-NEBM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have noticed, I&#8217;m into my new old Apple IIe computer lately.&nbsp; Together with the Apple IIe I bought a monochrome Apple monitor. And although it\u2019s working fine, and\u2019s it needed to complete the set, I will not be using it on a regular basis. I bought a VidHD card from Blue Shift.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,14,17,16],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vintage-computing","tag-apple-iie","tag-viddh","tag-vintage","tag-vintage-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gccdat.be\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}