Date   : Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:56:13 +0100
From   : Gareth Boden <Gareth.Boden@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Master AV (FWD)

It must have also had some kind of genlock system to get the FMV working
with the rest of the graphics system. The LaserDisc contained data as well
as recorded video and sounds, afaicr.

Gareth Boden
Software Developer


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Tomlinson [mailto:mike@...]
> Sent: 16 October 1999 08:39
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC Master AV (FWD)
> 
> 
> In article <1999101521550566447@...>, Mike Mallett
> <mike.mallett@...> writes
> 
> >Recall this was part of a project to put all of the OS maps 
> >(1:50000) on disc together with stacks of local info. Think
> >it was called the Doomsday project
> 
> Domesday
> 
> >The Laserdiscs were 12" and used analogue video and digital sound, I 
> >think the whole lot was on two or three discs. The player was a 
> >modified Phillips machine which unlike consumer models had a serial 
> >port so it could
> >be driven by a computer.
> 
> Actually, it had a SCSI port and was driven by a simple-minded SCSI
> interface in the Master, sitting in the space to the left of the
> motherboard intended for the internal modem.
> 
> >The Master also had a fews mods which I can't recall.
> 
> None that I remember, apart from the SCSI card and AV ROM.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Tomlinson
>