[Coco] CoCo SDC board arrived and RGB to VGA converters

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 07 February 2014 06:49:33 Steve did opine:

> I too got my CoCo SDC board today.  But it will have to wait for the
> Sunday or later since I'm booked till then.  (I need as little time to
> dig out a CoCo and find a modern HD T.V that will take those old style
> inputs.  All my old CRT type monitors are long gone.  (The phosphors
> start fall off inside the CRT.)  I do have one of those CoCo RGB to VGA
> converters that someone sold me at a CoCofest but it never work very
> well. (Lot's of sparkles in the T.V. image.)
> 
> Speaking of CoCo 3 output to VGA converters, has anyone try this one the
> SainSmart GBS-8220 RGB/CGA/EGA/YUV to VGA Arcade HD Video Converter
> Board?  It runs about $30 and here is the link:
> http://www.amazon.com/SainSmart-GBS-8220-Arcade-Video-Converter/dp/B0051
> SLJAG

I have one, had to cobble up a composite sync signal to make it work, video 
gain is a bit low.  Roy's latest version has better gain & just slightly 
sharper.
 
> There is a review from a CoCo 3 user and he never got it work. But it
> could because he did not know how to hook it up.

It has several inputs, but the only way I found to get a stable pix out of 
it was to use the molex header posts, and cobble up an inverted polarity 
composite sync.
 
> Steve
> 
> On 2/6/2014 9:53 PM, Richard Goedeken wrote:
> > A big thank you to Darren; I received my CoCo SDC board today.  I
> > can't wait to pick up an SDHC card and fire this up tomorrow.  I also
> > have a CoCoNet MicroSD pak, which I love, but there's a lot of
> > software that won't work with it, including almost everything that
> > boots OS9, because of the design.  I'm hoping that this board will
> > work with all the old software, and be easier to load up as well due
> > to the use of a standard FAT filesystem on the card.
> > 
> > I do have a few questions about this device.  I was going to email
> > Darren directly but thought that it might be better to ask on the
> > list so other users can read the answers as well.
> > 
> > 1. Do you have any documentation other than the CoCoSDC blogspot site?
> > 2. How can I use the button to switch images?
> > 3. Is there any maximum size of SDHC card which is supported?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> > 
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