SCSI graphics card, via Raspberry Pi HDMI

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patters

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The DaynaPort SCSI ethernet emulation via wifi is already incredible, but this has the potential to be even more amazing. Could this be the kind of thing to expect from a BlueSCSI v3? Compact Macs that can drive external colour LCD screens...
 
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That's for the PiSCSI. The BlueSCSI and the PiSCSI are not the same. the PiSCSI uses a Raspberry Pi computer, the BlueSCSI uses the BluePill and Raspberry Pi Pico, which are, say it with me, microcontrollers
 
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That's for the PiSCSI. The BlueSCSI and the PiSCSI are not the same. the PiSCSI uses a Raspberry Pi computer, the BlueSCSI uses the BluePill and Raspberry Pi Pico, which are, say it with me, microcontrollers

I think that may be why he mentioned v3. v1 used BluePill, v2 used the Pico, could v3 use something like the PiZero and offer video output while still keeping the costs down? Of course, I know nothing about the challenges of porting software written to run on the Pico over to a the Zero, so maybe I sound like an idiot for suggesting it.

But, unless patters edited his post after you responded (it doesn't appear so), he very clearly acknowledges a new major version of BlueSCSI would be be needed to support this feature that a different product, PiSCSI, is now offering. I don't see anywhere he is suggesting this could work on the existing hardware, as there is no HDMI out on the BlueSCSI.
 
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