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Post by Blaine on Jan 19, 2020 21:22:52 GMT -7
If you don't have a monitor for your Commodore, or if you are like me, and the CRT monitor is just not going to fit on that desk, fear not ! Almost any TV with composite video in will work as a suitable monitor for most Commodore computers. An added bonus is to find a TV with more than one input, that will allow for more than one machine to be hooked up at a time. After a little hunting around my local thrift stores, I located a good candidate.   A little dusty, but that can be fixed pretty easily. To bad it didn't come in Commodore beige. The connectors you need the TV to have should look something like this.  |
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Post by Blaine on Jan 19, 2020 21:24:58 GMT -7
 You will need to use the yellow (composite video), red and white (right and left audio) and a composite cable for your Commodore computer. This is a picture of a normal monitor cable to use with a Commodore monitor. This will not work for a composite TV ! This is the type of cable you will need, if you don't have one, they can be puchased through Ebay pretty cheaply. At the time this was written, these sellers carried them - www.ebay.ca/str/Rep-Tronic/ or www.ebaystores.co.uk/Cool-Novelties/ |
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Post by Blaine on Jan 19, 2020 21:27:33 GMT -7
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Post by Blaine on Jan 19, 2020 21:29:42 GMT -7
Depending on the TV, you may be able to fill the screen with the picture if you want, but the aspect ratio will be wrong and everything will look short and fat.  Here's how it looks on a VIC-20.   You can also get cables that will let you use S Video as well, they're supposed to deliver an even better picture than composite, but I'm getting a good picture with the composite video. If you're fairly handy, these cables are not hard to make yourself, a little Googleing will get you all the information you would need. Cheers everyone. |
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Post by kahuna on Jan 22, 2020 16:38:47 GMT -7
Awesome, nice pick! You've plenty of options with all those connectors. In my case, I found a Sharp Aquos LC-20E1U on Kijiji. It's a 4:3 LCD that supports both PAL and NTSC which for me is key as I have a bunch of European equipment. Lucky me! I've also a Toshiba 27" CRT hidden somewhere in the basement. It's pretty bulky but I'll probably give it a try in the future. Regarding cables, I literally just got in the mail the piece of hardware you see over the C64. The great thing about it is you can use a standard S-video/RCA cables to hook it up to the TV. Also supports stereo and audio input! I've got it from commodore4ever.net |
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Post by Blaine on Jan 23, 2020 18:31:00 GMT -7
Your video adapter is a good looking way to give flexibility for video output. I like the idea of a PAL compatible monitor as well, a lot of software is still being written in Europe.
Looks like a great start !
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