From: mrlipring <mrlipring_at_tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:22:20 +0100

what you wanna do is write something for the gba that lets it control the archos...
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  From: Bio Hazard
  To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
  Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:23 AM
  Subject: Re: LCD mod?


  Archos Jukebox: $200
  GameBoy Color: $50
  All that soldering to get that color screen in that tiny box: Priceless

  although i have to admit having a better screen in the JBR would be nice, itd be way too much work...

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  From: "Fred Maxwell" <rockbox_at_anti-spam.org>
  To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
  Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 4:01 PM
  Subject: RE: LCD mod?


> It's an interesting suggestion, but ultimately impractical. There is not
> sufficient room in the case for the larger LCD. The skills and tools needed
> to splice it in electronically (e.g., SMT soldering) mean that few people
> could do that part of the mod. I don't know of a source for such displays --
> other than buying TI calculators and stripping them.
>
> I don't want to be a heretic, but you would probably be a lot better off
> buying an Apple iPod. It's got the better display, has a much slicker
> package, plays MP3, AAC, WAV, MP3 VBR, Audible(6),and AIFF formats, and is
> probably less than the cost of an Archos Jukebox plus a graphing TI
> calculator. In fact, I'd bet that you could earn enough to buy a brand new
> iPod with fewer hours of work than it would take to graft a TI display onto
> an Archos Jukebox.
>
> Regards,
> Fred Maxwell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se] On
> Behalf Of Minuk Choi
> Sent: September 21, 2003 6:03 PM
> To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: LCD mod?
>
>
> Hmm... the reason why I even brought this issue up was that the extra
> features like games and reading text is hard on the default LCD. For
> viewing ease, I thought maybe something can be done to either increase the
> width of the screen(for viewing text), or allow shades of black.
>
> -Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Laurent DEFERT SIMONNEAU
> To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: LCD mod?
>
>
> Just for the info:
> The TI83 (and also 89,82...) only have a black and white screen. Grayscale
> colors are obtained by blinking pixel at a high rate... But I don't think
> our JBR and FMR are powerful enough to do such a thing...
>
>
> Minuk Choi <Choi.Minuk_at_verizon.net> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm not too savvy on the hardware... but I was just wondering... the
> Archos FMR has a 1 bit screen(each pixel can be on or off). Is it possible
> to say, replace the LCD screen with one from a graphing calculator(TI-83 or
> something) which can support grayscale display? I mean, the display will
> remain as it is... but then some applications can be written specifically to
> assign a gray scale color value to a pixel.
>
> Of course, this is assuming that the assignment of values of the pixels
> on the screen is done from the software end and can be extended, and not
> hardware wise in which case... it wouldn't work... I think
>
>
>
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Received on 2003-09-22