[Coco] CoCo 2 Factory Composite Video RE'd

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Dec 16 11:21:19 EST 2014


On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:17:40AM -0600, Zippster wrote:
> Ah,  so the conversion of the 6847 signals to a PAL compatible
> sync and number of lines would be done on the motherboard
> before being sent to the RF modulator.  Perhaps the modulation
> chip (1372 PAL equivalent) is then still in the RF box similar to
> the NTSC CoCo2’s.

Well, as I was saying earlier I have been told that the PAL machines
use a design like the CoCo1 in which the RF modulator just takes a
composite video signal as input.  In that case, those machines should
only need a wire or maybe an amplifier to get composite video output.

John
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