[Coco] Fake colors on S-Video

[Juan Castro]

Well, well, look WHO's here. There goes the neighborhood.

(I know this snarky SOB from the Brazilian retro lists. He's cool.)

Welcome!

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>wrote:

> First: Hi, lemme introduce myself, my name is Felipe.
>
> I'm new here. I had a coco2 clone back in the 80's and recently I bought a
> coco3 from a thrifty store and now I'm back on coco scene.
>
> I bought the Hawksoft's s-video converter which is great but as RGB output
> it kills the fake NTSC colors for PMODE4 games, Well, I managed to get some
> back. So I'm faking the fake colors :P
>
> I did a dirty experiment where I got the luma signal from the s-video
> adapter and as chroma signal I used the coco3's composite output
>
> Here are the results:
>
> http://t.co/G79UKmwY
> http://t.co/8T55kEsy
> http://t.co/EMKJQhEb
>
> comparing to the composite, i have similar but stripped colors with sharper
> black pixels:
>
> http://t.co/cpmVeJ1z
> http://t.co/SMiay4wo
>
> I think if I use a resistor like 300ohms on the composite output I'll get
> better results. I need to switch the cables, so maybe I'll make a cable
> with a switch button on it.
>
> That's it.
>
> Felipe.
>
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