[Coco] [Spam] Re: I have a TV hooked up!

Aldo Lagana a.lagana at snet.net
Tue May 7 15:25:35 EDT 2013


New cable to RCA widgets are 1.50 US and new shielded coax cables are a few bucks - use those and all my cocos look great on any TV.

On May 7, 2013, at 3:01 PM, "Simon Jonassen" <simon at roust-it.dk> wrote:

> I haven't got my tv hooked up.....
> 
> Last time i tried the tv it looked like absolute crap.... So i put a couple
> of phono jack on the back of the coco instead, hooked up to the audio/video
> of the modulator... So now i have a nice stable composite signal for my old
> c64 monitor.....
> 
> /Simon :-)
> 
> 
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> vegne af Fedor Steeman
> Sendt: 7. maj 2013 21:00
> Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Emne: [Spam] Re: [Coco] I have a TV hooked up!
> 
>> Hey, at least you can display black on white text without wierd 
>> highlights. :-)
> 
> Not so. There was some slight artifacting that was even weirder. :-)
> 
> Where you'd on NTSC would have solid blue or reddish fields, on a PAL they
> would show a pattern of broad alternating vertical bands of pale green and
> pale blue. It's hard to describe. I had some pictures on coco3.com of it
> once, but these are now gone.
> 
> /Fedor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 7 May 2013 20:02, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:18:04AM +0200, Fedor Steeman wrote:
>>> In the Rainbow there once was a hack for making any CoCo2 game 
>>> become "artifacted" on a CM-8 monitor. It didn't always work, though...
>> 
>> I'm not very good at most arcade games, so they weren't worth that 
>> much hacking.
>>> 
>>> Anyways, I grew up with a PAL system so I never had those neat 
>>> colour artifacts. :-(
>> 
>> Hey, at least you can display black on white text without wierd 
>> highlights. :-)
>> 
>> Willard
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