MARIAdigitizer (PAL only)

This board is inserted between the MARIA chip and its socket in the Atari 7800 game console. The FPGA on the board listens to the digital communication between the MARIA, the TIA and the rest of the system and re-generates the video output in a near-digital form. This output signal (we call it 'lumacode') can then be flawlessly upscaled to a pixel-perfect HDMI signal using an RGBtoHDMI device or something with equal capabilities.

The board is currently tested with the PAL variant of the MARIA and TIA. NTSC has not been tested yet and may or may not work. If you want to help with this and own an NTSC Atari 7800 and an oscilloscope to do some probing, please get in contact.

More details are available on the project documentation page.