A Digital Camera for the Apple II's from 1983?
Yes, it was known as the MicronEye. Not the digital cameras we have available
today, the MicronEye was still an impressive hardware and software bundle from
1983 for use with both the Apple II+ and Apple IIe. I'm sure many veteran Apple
II users that read this post might even have had, used or still have the
MicronEye in their Apple II hardware collection. Offered for it's historical
information value with premission this Apple II historical addition to the
Internet should prove useful for most any Apple II hardware and software
computer hobbist to visit and review. Perhaps some of you might even have an
interest in developing a prototype card and updated software from the
information provided.
Thanks to an avid Apple II hobbist named Jim, who created the html documents and
sent to me to find a good home for it all, the complete MicronEye manual, basic
and assembly program listings, source code, example digitized graphics (in GIF
and JPG) with full documentation are available with the MicronEye program disk
archive. All nicely formatted in html documents with links to each option,
function and program listings, I expect many of you will appreciate its through
contents.
Check it all out with the detailed schematics,original digitized graphic
examples and the complete links to all there is on the MicronEye digital camera
system for the Apple II. A total of 2.2 MB's it is very complete in every
respect.
http://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/Graphics/A2.MicronEye/
http://members.xoom.com/cturley//A2.MicronEye/
I would suggest you access the tarnover.dyndns.org url for fastest access. The
members.xoom.com url was provided by Dr. Tom as a backup site only for it. Other
Apple II users, Apple II historical website host and hardware hobbist are also
welcomed to provide the entire MicronEye folder and its contents if they wish
without restrictions.
Color High Resolution Graphics
Lifted from a post on comp.sys.apple2 usenet newsgroup by jonrelay@napanet.net
the information included below is not inclusive with MicronEye information. But,
might be of equal interest to some hacker trying to enhance the MicronEye
software programs or develop their own prototype card to include color HR
graphics support.
Every 2 bytes in memory:
00 = Black 00 = Black 00 = Black 00 = Black
10 = Blue/Mag. 10 = Blue/Mag.10 = Blue/Mag. 10 = Blue/Mag.
01 = Or./Green 01 = Or./Green01 = Or./Green 01 = Or./Green
11 = White 11 = White 11 = White 11 = White
| | | |
+---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+
| | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|CG |C6 |C5 |C4 |C3 |C2 |C1 |C0 | |CG |C13|C12|C11|C10|C9 |C8 |C7 |
|128|64 |32 |16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |128|64 |32 |16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | | |
| +-+-+ +---+---+ | +---+---+ +-+-+
0 1 | | 0 1 | |
= = | 00 = Black = = 00 = Black |
M O | 10 = Blue/Magenta M O 10 = Blue/Magenta |
a r | 01 = Orange/Green a r 01 = Orange/Green |
g a | 11 = White g a 11 = White |
e n | e n |
n g | n g |
t e | t e |
a / | a / |
/ B | / B |
G l | G l |
r u | r u |
e e | e e |
e | e |
n | n |
+----------------------------+----------------------------+
|
|
00 = Black
01 = Blue/Magenta
10 = Orange/Green
11 = White
If color group bit from each byte
is different, then 01 or 10 will
result in brown, purple, cyan or
pink. I can't figure out when each
color appears; it's your burden to
figure it out.
Every 14 columns on screen:
00 = Black 00 = Black 00 = Black 00 = Black
01 = Blue/Mag. 01 = Blue/Mag. 01 = Blue/Mag. 01 = Blue/Mag.
10 = Or./Green 10 = Or./Green 10 = Or./Green 10 = Or./Green
11 = White 11 = White 11 = White 11 = White
| | | |
+---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+
| | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|CG |C0 |C1 |C2 |C3 |C4 |C5 |C6 | |CG |C7 |C8 |C9 |C10|C11|C12|C13|
|128| 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 |16 |32 |64 | |128| 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 |16 |32 |64 |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | | |
| +---+---+ +-+-+ | +-+-+ +---+---+
0 1 | | 0 1 | |
= = 00 = Black | = = | 00 = Black
M O 01 = Blue/Magenta | M O | 01 = Blue/Magenta
a r 10 = Orange/Green | a r | 10 = Orange/Green
g a 11 = White | g a | 11 = White
e n | e n |
n g | n g |
t e | t e |
a / | a / |
/ B | / B |
G l | G l |
r u | r u |
e e | e e |
e | e |
n | n |
+----+----+
|
|
00 = Black
01 = Blue/Magenta
10 = Orange/Green
11 = White
If color group bit from each byte
is different, then 01 or 10 will
result in brown, purple, cyan or
pink. I can't figure out when each
color appears; it's your burden to
figure it out.