16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
4:43 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Brian Lanning wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Joe Giliberti
<starbase89 at gmail.com> wrote:
I picked up an A500 recently. All I have for a
display is the mono composite
out. Can I make an adapter for the RGB out to either VGA or component? If
not, where can I get an appropriate monitor?
They make devices called scan doublers or
flicker-fixers (same thing).
They do what the name implies. They step the frequency up from 15 to
30 making them work with most vga monitors. There's an external model
that was made after the amigas went out of production. It's
ridiculously expensive. Expect to pay several hundred dollars on
ebay.
If you don't want to wait for Jens Schoenfeld's piggy-back video
converter I can tell you from experience that the Highway Model 100
converter works just fine. Even in interlaced mode the display is rock
solid.
Check out:
http://www.converters.tv/products/rgb_to_vga/100.html
You would need to build a SCART <--> Amiga video cable if you go this
route, but it's not very difficult to wire up. They provide one SCART
cable with the unit and I simply cut off one end and soldered on a DB-23.
With the current exchange rate it's going to end up at roughly the same
price as Jens' unit with the added bonus that it will work with other
classic systems (I also use it with an Apple IIGS - one of the few
converters that gives satisfactory results with those machines).
Steve
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