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by nemba
Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:58 pm
Forum: Portable Screen Hacking
Topic: Is it possible to use a laptop screen for a portable?
Replies: 5
Views: 5059

You need a lcd controller that would work with that lcd, and if the controller only accepts 60hz rgb you will need a scan increasing circuit and maybe even a chroma decoder.
All in all, if you can even find a suitable controller that is, it should cost you around $400 to use a laptop screen ...
by nemba
Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:47 am
Forum: Portable Screen Hacking
Topic: Is it possible to use a laptop screen for a portable?
Replies: 5
Views: 5059

Is it possible to use a laptop screen for a portable?

Size issues aside, is this possible? I've heard from various people that laptop lcds take entirely different protocols to normal ones, which would be too hard or expensive to convert. Can anyone here verify this or the opposite?

EDIT: The exact screen I'm thinking of using is one from a Dell ...
by nemba
Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:42 pm
Forum: Forum 42
Topic: where are you from:?:
Replies: 38
Views: 20478

Where are we originally from, or where are we posting from?

I was born in Belgium, but I currently live in Auckland, New Zealand.
by nemba
Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:19 am
Forum: Forum 42
Topic: Good portable-izing project for a beginner?
Replies: 13
Views: 7644

Thanks for all the ideas, especially this
JackFrost22 wrote:www.gamesx.com
link, it looks like it will be very helpful.
Unfortunately I don't have either a Xbox or a PSone, so I'll try the atari first, since I have one.

I'll surely post back here if I succeed in doing anything reasonably cool.
by nemba
Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:54 pm
Forum: Forum 42
Topic: Good portable-izing project for a beginner?
Replies: 13
Views: 7644

Good portable-izing project for a beginner?

I'm semi-newbish to electronics in general, but I can usually figure stuff out. I am entirely a n00b to anything like this, and I figured that people on a forum dedicated to this would know what is easiest to start with.

Is there anything of this sort easy enough, or should I just go and study some ...