From: Jeff
Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
Another thing I've noticed with my T/S-1000
and ZX-81 are
that they seem somewhat picky about what TV's they'll work with.
I've got a 19" JVC that was made about 10 or so years ago and some of
the Sinclair's will work fine with it and some won't. They seem to
prefer older sets. I really should try them with the portable B/W
Panasonic that is the monitor for my SOL....
Even when you find a TV the TS-1000 like, the RF is usually dirty. Most
cheap, modern B&W sets accept composite input. For fifty cents and 15
minutes time you can a crystal clear display.
I've often considered doing such a mod to my Spectrum so that
I could use it. I've got the directions for adding composite-out to
the Spectrum around here somewhere. That or feed it's output into
the input of my Amiga 3000's TBC+ and have it do the signal
conversion on the fly. The TBC+ is supposed to be capable of such a
thing but I've never actually tried it to see how usable the
resulting signal would be.
Jeff
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