🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi!  Thanks for your reply!!!  I have a few questions for you:

1)  What courses did you take in order to be able to have the technical
    knowledge to build a VGA card?  I would LOVE to be able to do that!
   
2)  Can you recommend some good books on video cards that contain
    skematics diagrams?  

3)  What kind of equipment do you need to test and debug the circuits
    involved in the video cards?  

4)  How much does do the parts cost in general? where do I special 
    order chips?

I've been doing alot of thinking about the "sprite engine"  Here are
the features that I'd put in if I could build one:

1)  I'd make it comaptible with all IBMs (except the IBM pc jr.) from
    the lowly 8086 to the 80486...basically, if you have a card slot 
    and its an ibm, it'll run.  

2)  I'd have some on-board memory for defining the sprites.  Would a
    megabyte of ram do it?  

3)  I'd have some scaling and rotation features for the sprites (this 
    can come later...and is just wishful thinking :)  

4)  It should be able to output to a regular VGA monitor 

5)  Definitely an atari 2600 joystick port!!  (for those arcade style
    gamers!)  

That's all I can think of right now...I'll post the source code to my
pascal program once I go back to my room and get my disk.  See ya!

- Rich
  kennehra@logic.camp.clarkson.edu