Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!daffy!rt2.cs.wisc.edu!perry
From: perry@rt2.cs.wisc.edu (Russell Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Raster/video to windows
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.225122.18407@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 91 22:51:22 GMT
Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Lines: 16
Originator: perry@rt2.cs.wisc.edu

I have to do a project for a class and one of my ideas involves an old video
game system.  What I'd like to do is send the screen to a window, but I am
not too sure this is possible.  I'd basically need a RF signal -> window,
or I might be able to get the video signal before it is converted if I want
to mess around inside.  As a small compromise, perhaps I could obtain a bit
map of the screen and update it now and again?  But how do I bitmap?

So, I ask for help - is any of this possible?  Any sources of code and/or
help I should research?

I do have a cable TV type cable (like into a VCR or newer TVs; don't know
the proper name) with the raster-ready signal.  Do conversions exist?  I'd
like real-time if possible, but any frame skipping just to get it to work
is acceptable.  Help!

Russ Perry	perry@rt2.cs.wisc.edu	russellp@cae.wisc.edu