It's hard to tell much from the pictures. But here's my guess...
The VGA horizontal frequency is ~ twice that of the TIA: 31kHz vs. 15.7kHz
The vertical frequency is also somewhere "near" twice as fast, though
there is a lot more variation due to the software control of the TIA's
vertical timing.
If you're not already doing it, you're going to need a line buffer.
The TIA should write video to the buffer, and the buffer should be
played twice to the VGA output. I think the easiest way to do this
is the following: during TIA scanline n, the TIA fills buffer A.
During TIA scanline n+1, the TIA fills buffer B while buffer A is
being read by the VGA output (twice), etc.
There's a lot of hardware overhead, and the SYNC signals are tricky,
because the 2 horizontal frequencies are not integer multiples. But
it works. I'm sure there are more elegant solutions for building a
non-integer line buffer, but you get the idea.
I ran into similar problems (in reverse) a long time ago when I tried
to double the 2600 clock speed and output it to a TV. The first thing
I tried was masking every other hsync pulse. I wound up with a display
similar to yours. IIRC, I had 4 psuedo-copies of Combat on screen at
once. But I did finally make it work, so keep hacking at it! :)
-Chris
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Adam Wozniak wrote:
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> These are images of my FPGA TIA driving my VGA monitor. (Space Invaders,
> if you can't tell.)
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> It looks as though the monitor cannot sync to the horizontal frequency
> I'm giving it. The image is totally stable vertically (i.e. no rolling
> or anything), but it looks as though each line is wrapped around the
> screen twice (one and a half times?). Look closely at the score; note
> the large gaps between pixels, both horizontally and vertically.
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> Unfortunately I don't have a scope handy to measure frequencies.
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> Is it possible my hsync is correct, but that my monitor sucks? Or have
> I done something else wrong?
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