[Coco] Re: CoCo to SVGA converter?

[Charlie]

Hey Roger.

If you can afford it, the device you want is the XRGB-2 Plus. It is
expensive ($200) but I feel worth the money.
If this device was just "OK" at its current cost I would say so. The XRGB-2
Plus is probably the BEST way to display CoCo.

Roy Justus came up with a design to combine the syncs from the CoCo to
something the XRGB-2 likes. The quality of his work is excellent.

You can see the device putting CoCo on a NEC XV15 monitor at my web page:
http://www.geocities.com/chazbeenhad/coco

I just replace my monitor with a 19" Princeton. It absolutely blows me away.
CoCo never looked so good. Check it out here:
http://69.3.33.239:8081/files/coco3w19.jpg

I have found in all my playing / testing with the XRGB-2 Plus that the 87
gime and 86 gime chips display differently. It is my feeling that this will
be seen with any upscan device used with cocos to a vga monitor. I don't
want to go into detail in this message, but lets just say the 86 gime
displays a better picture.

I'd be happy to answer any questions on the device. I can take pictures or
whatever anyone wants. I know its on the expensive side, so if people want
to know anything specific, I would be happy to help.

Charlie

"Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote in
message news:6.1.1.1.0.20041027160506.01eac4f0 at pop.bayou.com...
> Has anyone created a converter for the CoCo for connecting SVGA and flat
> panel monitors?
>
> Mark, if you're reading this.. I really think a universal CoCo video
> converter would be the ultimate CoCo upgrade.  A device that could convert
> the RF Out, Video Out, or RGB Out into the SVGA format would be one of the
> best things a CoCo could ever have.
>
> We've got everything we thought could never be done, but nothing to
> preserve our video.  That is, if your CM-8 or other RGB monitor fails and
> you have trouble finding something else compatible, you're CoCo system is
> basically rendered useless.  Besides, most CoCo users have never really
> seen a crisp clean video signal.
>
> I set my flat panel monitor on top of my original gray CoCo 1 just to see
> how it looks, and it looks GREAT.  Talk about retrofitting!  I quickly
> imagined what it would be like to have some of my custom programs built
> into ROM Paks, and the system would only consist of the CoCo, the flat
> panel, and the ROM Pak.  *VERY* compact, and very appealing.
>
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