> On 28 Aug 2017, at 02:30, Kevin Parker via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > HI guys - not really a C64 person (I've been given a couple over the years > and kept them rather than see them go to landfill). > > Trying to fix one up for a very good friend for a house warming present for > his games room (he said something the other day that > gave me the hint). > > I have a genuine Commodore monitor but don't want to give him that but I have > bucket loads of VGA (LCD) monitors I've scored over > time as well so thought I'd use one of those. > > I've googled het subject a lot but there seems to be lots of options and > views on what works and what doesn't and even how well. > > I'd be most grateful if anyone on the list has any advice, suggestions, > recommendations etc about this.
I made up an S-VHS cable for mine then feed that into either an LCD TV that has an S-VHS input or a VGA converter. The only trouble with the converters is there seems to be two different chipsets in the Chinese ones and YMMV a lot, for instance this one works: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Composite-S-video-BNC-To-VGA-Converter-Adapter-VGA-Cable-For-PC-LCD-CCTV-Camera-/132296519532 while this one doesn’t http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EU-Yellow-Composite-RCA-SVHS-to-VGA-Converter-Adapter-CCTV-Analogue-/263047471571 — Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards
