130XE Display on my LCD

[jhill98]

I finally pulled my old 130XE and Indus GT out of storage and plugged it into my new LCD TV, and I am wondering what is up with the display.

It seems to work perfectly fine, loads games, even some of the old projects from disk I worked on. But the display has a pink stripe down the left side and a green stripe down the right side and it seems this color skewing evidenced everywhere.

 

Is there something that is now old and needs replaced (capacitor, etc.) or is there a bit of fine tuning I can do?

 

Jeff

[flashjazzcat]

Firstly, how are you hooking it up? RF, composite video, or s-video? These modern TVs have tighter tolerances and are a lot more "sensitive" than older sets. I had a Samsung which could not sync with the XE signal at all via s-video.

[jhill98]

Brand new 26" Sony Bravia LCD via the Composite input as this is the only cable I have for it. I used to have a Sakata SC-1000 little 12" monitor, so I don't think I even know where an RF cable is right now, and I don't have a newer S-video cable.

 

Just to put a little more info into the pile, things look better on a newer 26" analog TV but I still get the 2 stripes, and

I remember that on my old monitor putting 144 into 710 would turn the background to a dark blue, and on the analog TV it is practically black.

 

Thanks, Jeff

[flashjazzcat]

Before I conjectured any further, I might be inclined to buy/make an s-video cable. Composite is pretty mangled on my LCD TV, while s-video is sweet. On the other hand, I had to actually take my 8-bit Atari into Richer Sounds to test out various TVs before I hit lucky.

Edited March 8, 2010 by flashjazzcat