S-Video hack A1200

[vic20owner]

I finally got around to testing the neobitz s-video board I installed inside my A1200.  At first I wasn't impressed. But, after using a 1084s for ahile, going back to the s-video really didn't look too bad in interlace.  Not perfect, but acceptable.

Games look excellent. These pictures were taken with my camera phone so most of the poor sharpness is due to the camera not the monitor.

[vic20owner]

No I didn't "add" a battery backed clock.  It was there when I bought my Amiga... didn't even know until I went to install the s-video board and larger hard drive.

Just didn't bother removing it...

Besides, it make my time twice as accurate as your time.

[vic20owner]

Ok. I'll remove it. But it's unlikely that it is causing any issues because it's simply a battery backup for the onboard clock, not a clock itself.

[vic20owner]

Hmmm, that looks nice.. What advantages to you have with it? I don't know of any monitors that have S-Video in. Are you using on of those switch box thingies?

The advantage (here in the USA) is that we don't have SCART.  So the closest we can get to RGB in is S-Video or Component video.  Since component video is hard to convert from RGB (without building your own device or spending a lot of money) s-video was the next best option.

It works very well.  Non-interlaced screens are very clear and completely stable.  Interlace shows some flicker and is a little blurry, but still useable.

On my LCD TV, I can scan double everything going to VGA in, and then when I want to play games, I can switch over to S-Video (no unplugging anything) and see it in full color.