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RGB Digital signal, what is it?
« on: October 22, 2006, 11:32:11 AM »
Yesterday I picked-up the A4000T that was collecting dust at my parents' home. It used to have a PicassoIV in it but I gave that one to my brother a few years ago. It wouldn't be nice to take it away from him so I didn't. But now I've put myself into a proces looking at options available to connect the machine to a half-decent (preferable Apple, as it is sitting on my desk) monitor.

Going through the options ([1] getting an LCD TV with both SCART and VGA, [2] put the A2301 genlock in and continue to use the TV-card in the Mac, [3] getting a true multi-cync VGA monitor, [4] use one of those external scan-doublers used with gamecubes, [5] try and scoop a Picasso, Piccolo, Cybervision, Retina ... from eBay, [6] DIY scandoubler....).

I did some studying on the connectors available and one of the connectors  available is the Amiga's 23 pin RGB. I noticed that there are digital RGB signals. Now a lot of Amiga's internals are being explained on the net but I didn't manage to find information on these signals. Does any of you know what kind of signals they are and how they can be used? Would it be possible to use these signals for playing games? Are those the signals that could be fed to the TTL connector at the back of (iirc) the 1084?
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Re: RGB Digital signal, what is it?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2006, 12:37:34 PM »
Sounds like it's an inheritance of the C64/C128 then. Too bad as I found a schematic for a scandoubler for TTL signals. Have to continue studying then.

Thanks for the quick replies.
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