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

[Simon Jonassen]

Funny thing is that the same coax cable worked fine on the tv when i fired
up the c64.... So maybe my coco modulator is showing it's age after not
being in use for 20+ years.....

/Simon :-)
 

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] På
vegne af Aldo Lagana
Sendt: 7. maj 2013 21:26
Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Cc: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Emne: [Spam] Re: [Coco] [Spam] Re: I have a TV hooked up!

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 :-)
> 
> 
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] På 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
>> --
>> Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
>> Socorro, New Mexico, USA
>> I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
>>  -- R.E. Howard
>> 
>> --
>> Coco mailing list
>> Coco at maltedmedia.com
>> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
> 
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
> -----
> Ingen virus fundet i denne meddelelse.
> Kontrolleret af AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 2012.0.2241 / Virusdatabase: 3162/5806 - Udgivelsesdato: 
> 07-05-2013
> 
> 
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco

--
Coco mailing list
Coco at maltedmedia.com
http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco

-----
Ingen virus fundet i denne meddelelse.
Kontrolleret af AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2241 / Virusdatabase: 3162/5806 - Udgivelsesdato: 07-05-2013