2600 on ST monitor

[Gregory DG]

Ouch... What would it take to hook up a 2600, 5200, or 7800 to an ST monitor? Does someone have a gizmo to convert RF to RGB?

[+Mitch]

I have a PAL SCART 7800 with RGB output that works. They were sold in France.

You could convert one to NTSC and then you'ld be set.

 

Mitch

[Han]

Doesn't the colour ST monitor have a composite video input? If it does you can just hook up your 2600 via a VHS machine and then connect the composite signal from the VHS to your ST monitor...

 

Not much point trying to buy a RF to RGB converter. You wouldn’t really gain any picture quality, just waste your $$$

[Gregory DG]

Doesn't the colour ST monitor have a composite video input?

 

Nope. Not in an RCA style format anyway.

[Han]

Doesn't the colour ST monitor have a composite video input?

 

 

Nope. Not in an RCA style format anyway.

 

That's true, you would have to find the pin configuration for the monitor connector (probably available on the net somewhere) and build yourself a cable. Hmm... I am pretty certain I have the pin conf. noted somewhere, if I just could remeber where… But I dont know if the configuration was the same as on the Atari end. I think one pin was "twisted"...

[Han]

aargh.. just forget my previous ramblings about "twisted" pins... I was thinking about something completely different... Man, I am too tired to think straight... Oh well.. I am of the bed... nite all

[Paul Slocum]

http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/Atar...ri_ST_Video.htm

[Han]

Ahh.. that link makes a lot more sense than I did ... Sorry for the rambling, but my brain had turned into porridge... Hope you get it to work Gregory ...