[Coco] *COOL* Look what I found! (VideoMod for CoCo2)

[Bruce W. Calkins]

> Hi all,

>

> While going through the huge lot of copied CoCo Manuals I inherited from

> Michel Collette, a former Dutch CoCo-society regional coordinator, I

> discovered the following schematics for making a video buffer mod for

> the CoCo2, enabling a CoCo2 to be coupled up any television or video

> equipment with a composite video input:

>

> http://www.steeman.dk/CoCoManuals/VideoMod_(KoenVaartjes).pdf

>

> How cool is that!?

>

> It is all in Dutch, written by someone called Koen Vaartjes, but if people

> are interested I could translate, clean it up, perhaps redo the schematics

> in a graphics editor and put it up on a webpage!

Yes I would like to see the english version of that.


> Some of the equipment i inherited from Michel Collette actually included a

> CoCo2 with this video mod. I tried it out when I first discovered it and 

> it

> worked flawlessly then. After having transported the CoCo one time, 

> however,

> something went wrong, because after that all I got was a black screen and 

> no

> sound. I believe there must be a loose contact somewhere, because every 

> now

> and then when I try it, it works again.

This sounds like a loose connection, perhaps the power supply line.


>

> Cheers,

>

> Fedor


Thanks,
Bruce W.