[Coco] CoCo to SVGA

Rod Barnhart rod.barnhart at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 19:04:27 EDT 2004


By high voltages, I meant the voltages inside the monitor in
general... I'm not that comfortable doing that mod because I know
me... I'd hit something that lit me up <Grin>...


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:53:16 EDT, rjrtty at aol.com <rjrtty at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 10/28/04 2:31:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> rod.barnhart at gmail.com writes:
> 
> <<  Also, I've heard of people opening their CGA monitor
> and bypassing the digital circuitry, basically making it an RGB-A
> monitor. High voltages aren't my thing, though ;) >>
> 
>     I have done this.   If you follow  the digital circuitry from the
> input,  it eventually
> feeds a potentiometer labelled as "gain".    There will be three of these.
> One for each color.   You cut the trace going to the pot and connect the
> incoming signal directly to the pot and you get an analog RGB display.
> No high voltages involved.    The only problem is CGA monitors are
> getting scarce too.
> 
> 
> 
> Roy
> 
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