Video Expander

[mgd]

Risking to give myself away as a complete ignorant:
What does VIM stand for?

[XORadmin]

Risking to give myself away as a complete ignorant:
What does VIM stand for?

I think he is referring to a popular texteditor on X systems. It’s like shortcuts hell but when you know it it is the fastest thing you could use...for some ??

[mgd]

I was fearing he meant *that* VIM...(I thought it's vim, but here you go)

I never understood why some people seem to be fixed on those shortcuts. I'm an Emacs person and have a completely different set of preferences

[mewraz]

Haha. I’m sorry about that. I did not mean to make the discussion about a specific set of shortcuts. We all have our personal preferences.
I meant more like the amount of navigation/edit tools/shortcuts would be welcome.
I would not like to edit my tracker in vim

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Another question: Have you tested the expander with a keyboard running qmk?
I have a feeling it should work but given that it’s a little buggy with other keyboard-accepting modules like Teletype I figured it’s worth asking.

[mgd]

Hi forum!

I recently watched the Sonic Voltage video on the upcoming Video Expander. Judging from that it appears the Video expander does not add additional resolution to the screen. No matter what monitor I add I basically seem to get the same display as on the NerdSEQ screen (albeit in large).

Correct?

And if that is the case the obvious question is:
Will this eventually change so that with a proper screen attached we're going to have larger screens (as in: more columns and possibly rows) through the video expander?

Kind regards,
Michael

[XORadmin]

Hi forum!

I recently watched the Sonic Voltage video on the upcoming Video Expander. Judging from that it appears the Video expander does not add additional resolution to the screen. No matter what monitor I add I basically seem to get the same display as on the NerdSEQ screen (albeit in large).

Correct?

And if that is the case the obvious question is:
Will this eventually change so that with a proper screen attached we're going to have larger screens (as in: more columns and possibly rows) through the video expander?

Kind regards,
Michael

No, there are also not more columns possible here since this is a memory thing. I could theoretically pack more info into the external screen though, but they are no plans for this and it would be an own big project to do so.

[mgd]

Thank you for clarifying that.

[mewraz]

External screen will be very welcome for ergonomics! Will there be any resolution difference between the CVBS and HDMI outputs?

[XORadmin]

External screen will be very welcome for ergonomics! Will there be any resolution difference between the CVBS and HDMI outputs?

There is no resolution difference. But HDMI got of course a better quality.
And composite looks cooler with older tube TV’s ? for the real feeling ?

[Karlo]

I see this has been added to ModularGrid. We're getting close!