[Coco] capturing CoCo video

[diegoba at adinet.com.uy]

I have an "old-iesh" ATI video card, and I use it, mostly succesfully, to see 
the display generated by all kinds of computers from the 80's
I'm sure you could get some for around 30-50 now.

Diego


>----Mensaje original----
>De: operator at coco3.com
>Fecha: 18/09/2007 21:37 
>Para: "cocolist for Color Computer Enthusiasts"<coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Asunto: [Coco] capturing CoCo video
>
>This is a little issue I've had off and on for years when I've tried 
>to use various PC capture devices to record live CoCo video...
>
>Some of the capture devices I've owned seem to freeze on 
>non-interlaced video.  The DVDExpress DX2 box which is USB based is 
>the latest device I own that also can't capture CoCo video.  If you 
>hit the CoCo Reset button or power on the CoCo, you can sometimes get 
>a single frame of CoCo video, but it's rare.  Almost always you get a 
>frozen frame of garbled video, but.. never more than a few frames.
>
>I realize that a lot of people are using the emulators to fake a CoCo 
>screen capture or a running game (I do this myself), so I'm not 
>looking for that answer.  What I'm wondering is if there is some kind 
>of unit besides a VCR that the CoCo video can be routed through to 
>add the interlaced effect, or some trick?  Sock Master ?  :)
>
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