Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorI wouldnt really call it retarted, and I wouldnt really call it a hack.
You need to understand what underlying hardware you're trying to generate, and offset that against user understanding. A string is just an array of chars, which is really just an array of bytes. You're using a rom to do this. In previous designs where Ive had graphics overlay, it has always come from a processor. Either 2 bits per pixel for black and white overlaikd (black, white, grey - level set by a register, and normal video) or colour at 24bit/pixel RGB. But in my case the processors were already there performing other tasks. I have also had a design with FPGA generated graphcis - and it ends up being long winded and overly complicated.
