[Coco] Getting into Tandy Color Computer 3, Suggestions and Info Needed

Kandur k at qdv.pw
Sun Aug 30 14:32:19 EDT 2015


Thanks Barry,
will be looking for a SCART plug, soldering is no problem here.

Kandur

Sunday, August 30, 2015, 4:06:55 AM, you wrote:
> The converter box should be fine. The cable is questionable because it is not
> clear if all the pins are present in the SCART connector. Some SCART plugs
> leave out the unused pins. If the extra pins are not present you will not be
> able to wire the additional pins needed for RGB. You can ask the seller if all
> the pins are present on the SCART plug, if it has all the pins then it should
> be usable. I bought the SCART plug alone, and then connected the wires I needed.

> On Aug 29, 2015, at 2:19 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:08:07 -0700
>> From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Getting into Tandy Color Computer 3,      Suggestions
>>       and Info Needed
>> Message-ID: <1292400645.20150828220807 at qdv.pw>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

>> Hi Barry,  would this box and cable do?

>> http://tinyurl.com/nzttgux
>> and
>> http://tinyurl.com/oefeema

>> Kandur

>> Friday, August 28, 2015, 6:28:10 PM, you wrote:
>>> There is also this solution for RGB video if you have an HDMI TV:
>>> https://hackaday.io/project/7366-coco-3-rgb-to-scart-to-hdmi-cable
>>> It requires soldering, but the only components are the wires, plugs, a 100 ohm resistor and a 5V power source.
>>> If the 5V power is unplugged, this switches to NTSC. It works pretty well.


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