[Coco] Inquiry on VGA converter from Marty Goodman

[Rob Rosenbrock]

Interesting...

I came across the following converter:

http://www.jammaboards.com/store/cga/ega/yuv-to-vga-converter-pcb-gbs-8220/prod_291.html

My thought is for my old arcade cabinet, but I wonder if it's possible that it might support the coco as well? Certainly seems adjustable, and a manual is available for download.

On Jun 5, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> Received this from Marty:
> 
> Art,
> 
> Can you do me a favor?
> 
> Can you post to some active CoCo list or blog or whatever that you feel has
> knowledgeable people on it the following Ebay link:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/15Khz-RGB-CGA-Component-Video-VGA-Converter-Scaler-/120340188651?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c04d58deb
> 
> and ask for me if anyone has had experience using this $100 device to put a
> CoCo 3 analog RGB signal up on a VGA monitor?
> 
> The device is ADVERTISED as being a "CGA to VGA" converter in the title.
> BUT... if you read the full description carefully, they go to great length
> to explicitly say it accepts analog RGB at 15.75 KHz from old style
> computers, mentioning the Amiga and Atari ST, and converts it to 31.75 KHz
> VGA analog RGB that can be displayed on modern VGA monitors.
> 
> ---marty
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I mentioned Roy Justus' VGA converter to Marty in my reply, but he said he'd
> not received any reply to an inquiry about it, but would be interested in
> buying three of them if any were available.  Anybody know the status of
> that?
> 
> Art
> 
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