800XL Chroma output

[damellema]

Does anyone know what modifications should be made to an Atari 800xl in order it to output a chroma signal?

[classics]

I believe the 800XL already has Chroma and Luma outputs on the video port.

[AtariGuy]

Try the Super Video 2.1XL modification from Atari Classics. It's archived at Clarence's Atari 8bit Page: http://www.redshift.com/~cdyson/atari.html

 

I've found a bunch of useful hardware modifications there.

[Gunstar]

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Originally posted by classics:

I believe the 800XL already has Chroma and Luma outputs on the video port.

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Yes, it does. I think That mod above is only for IMPROVING the signal, the 800xl's chroma/lumina (S-video) has washed out colors, they kind of smere. The 800/XE are fine. I think the 1200xl may be fine as well.

[aminerva]

If you were not going to do the Super Video upgrade on an 800XL, is it worth splicing the Chroma/Luma cables into an S-Video cable, or would it just look like the Composite output?

 

I've got a monitor cable 5 pin din to 4 RCA cables. I've got the composite going to a VGA converter that also have Super Video inputs. I don't want to bother with the 800xl SV upgrade.

 

Just curious if the Composite output is as good as I can expect unless I do the SV upgrade.

 

Thanks

 

Tony

[Thelen]

The strange thing is, I have 3 atari XE's and when i connect them with s-video the screens has color. When i connect one of my 4 atari 800xl's I get black/white only. off course with the same cable. somebody klnows this ?

 

Thelen

[jindroush]

The strange thing is, I have 3 atari XE's and when i connect them with s-video the screens has color. When i connect one of my 4 atari 800xl's I get black/white only. off course with the same cable. somebody klnows this ?

 

Standard 800XL don't have chroma (color) output on the connector. My 800 XL (in fact XLF) does.

 

Description of the port is here: http://www2.asw.cz/~kubecj/atvideo.htm