[Coco] CoCo 3 RGB to SCART video, then converted to HDMI

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 07:09:55 EDT 2015


On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Barry Nelson wrote:

> I have conducted an experiment and it worked! I wired the CoCo 3's RGB 
> video lines from the connector on the bottom of the computer to the RGB 
> lines in an SCART connector. I connected the audio from the CoCo 
> connector to the left and right audio on the SCART connector. I 
> connected the CoCo 3's composite video to the composite video/sync on 
> the SCART connector and I connected +5V to a 100 ohm resistor connected 
> to the "fast switching" pin on the SCART connector. I then plugged the 
> SCART video connector into my SCART --> HDMI converter, which I plugged 
> into my TV. Viola! Perfect RGB video up scaled to 1080P.

>From my experience with other classic machines, use of composite video as 
composite sync for SCART is hit or miss.  Glad it worked out for you!

Would love to see some photos of 80-column text mode.



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