[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] CoCo 2 and a PC VGA

sadolph sadolph at magma.ca
Fri Sep 10 15:16:28 EDT 2004

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I've been using a TV and/or composite video capture card and an old pc to do the
conversion. It's cheap if you have the old PC around...

(all my cocos are modded to composite now, so I just do a composite capture card...but a
TV tuner capture card should work too)

...Steve

On Sep 10, Davey Brain <dsbrain at neosplice.com> wrote:

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> Gene Heskett wrote: 

> > On Friday 10 September 2004 12:05, steve_churchman wrote: 

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> >>Hi Everyone, 

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> >>Is it possible to modify a CoCo 2 to work to a PC monitor, and has 

> >>anyone done this? 

> >> 

> >>Regards Steve 

> >> 

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> Steve, 

> A scan doubler will convert to VGA/SVGA. But I just googled on that and 

> they all seem to work with RGB and not composite (example here: 

> <<a href="<a href='http://www.cadesigns.co.uk/scan-2.htm"><a

href='http://www.cadesigns.co.uk/scan-2.htm</a>>'>http://www.cadesigns.co.uk/scan-
2.htm</a>></a>'>http://www.cadesigns.co.uk/scan-2.htm"><a
href='http://www.cadesigns.co.uk/scan-2.htm</a>>'>http://www.cadesigns.co.uk/scan-
2.htm</a>></a></a> ). So you'd have to convert to 

> RGB and then use a scan doubler to convert to VGA. Lotsa signal loss 

> there so probably a poor quality picture. The Coco 3 has RGB out so you 

> could try a scan doubler on that. 

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> What I've done in the past is actually use a VCR to convert the RF from 

> the Coco to composite output and hooked up an old monitor. Even though 

> it goes through a modulate/demodulate process it is still a better 

> picture (sharper & steadier) than on a TV. I guess there is a way to 

> pickup the composite signal before it's modulated and put outputs on a 

> Coco. But it's still composite. 

>  

> FYI, most newer TVs have composite inputs so they can be used as 

> monitors. A nice 15-18" modern flatscreen TV makes a very nice monitor 

> for old computers. 

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> HTH in some way... 

> WarpDavey 

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