The Commodore Amiga produces RGB video output @ 15khz. It has the ability to run in a higher resolution mode which causes a crazy amount of flicker when the screen refreshes. While I totally respect and give props to the Amiga friends over the years, their monitors seemed to always be a downfall. As a MS-DOS and VGA just didn’t have that issue.<\/p>\n
This isn’t a new trick and has done before. But here is some slight documentation. I used one of the scalers that are popular with us arcade people to scale the video to drive a VGA monitor. This is pretty well known, really the most limiting part is getting hold of DB-23 connectors. In my case I used a DB9 as the input so I could re-use the DB-23 to DB-9 monitor cable with the scaler. I have a plastic project box on order from eBay\/China to house the scaler and mount the connectors. I was more than impressed by the output from the scaler board, it looks really good. <\/p>\n
Quick success and rapid turn around on this! <\/p>\n
If you want to do the same using the DB9, I used a DB9 male solder type D-SUB.
\nAlways check the pin labels on the plastic just to double check direction.<\/p>\n
Pin 1 = Black, GND
\nPin 3 = Red
\nPin 4 = Green
\nPin 5 = Blue
\nPin 7 = Grey = Sync<\/p>\n
The Yellow wire is not needed, no connection to the separate HS and VS pins on the scaler board.<\/p>\n