OK every time I search for this I reach a dead end and I know other
people must be frustrated too. I live in the U.S. Every post about the
Amiga 500 ends with "well I have an Amiga xxxx and I'm not sure how
you do this on the Amiga 500". I have an Amiga 500 and no monitor and
no hard drive. I have been using UAE for a while and I don't see the
advantage of having an actual Amiga 500 over the UAE emulator. I have
the A520 video adapter and thought I could run a RCA cable from Video
Out (not RF out) to the yellow RCA jack on my TV. No go, it's
scrambled. Then I read and someone said I need a scan doubler. I
cannot locate one on eBay or anywhere. It looks like they are not
even available anywhere overseas. Then in the US, Amazon has a SCART
to RCA converter (which I am not sure will work without the doubler)
and it has a SCART male. I cannot find an RGB DB23 Female to SCART
female cable and if I did I am not sure this wouldn't be a waste of
money and not work. I can cut down a 25 pin D-Sub without issue and
make my own stuff. As a matter of fact, I have a degree in
electronics engineering but I have not worked in video at all. I have
been strictly multiplexers, audio modulation and some frequency
up/down conversion in the MHz and GHz band. So I am very new to this
video conversion and what I intuitively think will work does not. Here
is the problem. My monitor has VGA and DVI. My flat screen Hi-Def TV
has RCA, HDMI, RGB (RCA style 3 color RGB). They are all newer models (2011 and newer). My TV has RF in also (although I heard this is virtually unusable with Amiga). I do not
care if I use my TV or my monitor with the Amiga, I just want crsip
clear color video. I should add that I was able to use the Mono color
composite video and get a very crisp black and white image on my TV. This will not work for me though, as I want to use the Amiga for graphics.
If I build some device that works, I would make a step by step YouTube video of how I did it so other people will not have to go through this. I just need to get started with stuff that I can get in the U.S. and is reasonably priced because I do not want to put that much money into this. If I have to, I think I'll just stick with UAE. Also, I have space PCs. I know I can make a NULL cable to transfer adf files to the Amiga, but I do not have a hard drive. Just the built in 3.5 floppy. Is it possible to just leave this PC connected via the cable and use the spare PC as a hard drive for the Amiga?
Thank you very much,
Zune
