[Coco] RGB --> VGA for CoCo: A success story

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 31 January 2009, RJRTTY at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/31/2009 6:38:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>
>RJRTTY at aol.com writes:
>>I have  NDI how to bypass the gime.   Like you say Gene  it would be  a
>>"scary" soldering job on the motherboard.    I might do it someday  on
>>one of my spare coco3's just to see what a  perfect output would  look
>>like......stray  tuned.
>>
>>Roy
>
>Now that I think about it I could eliminate the AL875 and
>hook the AL250 directly to the traces that feed the
>Gime and I COULD put it on a board the plugs
>into the Gime socket and that contained another
>socket to plug the Gime into.   Sorta like the lower-case
>video board that was produced for the coco1.

In my case, IIRC the 2 meg memory kit sits on that area, so there is at most 
1/4" of height to play with.  That should be enough though.

>Hmmmmmm.........let me think about this for awhile
>and get back to you all at a later date......

With careful attention, Roy, thanks.

>Roy
>
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