The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

The Old Vintage Computing Research blog looks at the Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler. Video titlers (also known as character generators) are exactly what they sound like: devices that stamp bitmap data, usually text, on top of a video signal, like this typical example from a 1992 demo video for the consumer-oriented Videonics Video Titler. Distinct from what you might do as part of an editing system, many of these machines operate …

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer – OSnews

Cameron Kaiser comes in with another amazing article, this time diving into a unique video titler from Canada, released in 1985. The Super Micro Script was one of several such machines this company made over its lifetime, a stylish self-contained box capable of emitting a 32×16 small or 10×4 large character layer with 64×32 block graphics in eight colours. It could even directly overlay its output over a composite video signal using a built-in …