LCD interfacing
Has anybody interfaced an LCD to a Spectrum? I'm toying with putting together an interface, a small 32x8 display would fit nicely just above the keyboard. Portable Speccy ;)
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Can be LCD monitor ?
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=457816#post457816
Version for SAM COUPE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8eMVKHMZ18&feature=player_embedded
SAM COUPE is ZX compatible and use same signals on system bus, then is it connectable also for ZX Spectrum.
http://home.orange.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/hardware/lcd/
Maybe this one could be helpfull: http://home.iae.nl/users/pouweha/lcd/lcd1.shtml
www.msxarchive.nl/pub/msx/mirrors/hanso//.../lcdhitachi.pdf
http://www.user.dccnet.com/wrigter/index_files/ZXLCD.htm
http://user.tninet.se/~vjz762w/laptop.html
I think pretty much all of the typical character LCD displays are HD44780 compatible.
(I also have a pile of mono 256x128 graphical LCDs, stripped from some redundant equipment. These are not-quite-raw panels, but they have to be refreshed almost like a display, i.e. with HSYNC, VSYNC signals and 8 bit wide data (putting in 8 pixels at a time). My plan for these is to make a frame buffer, giving a byte addressable screen).
There is much more that would nicely fit, as soon as the heatsink got redundant by a Recom 'regulator'!
http://www.biehold.nl/roelof/newroom.jpg