Anyone ever done an S-Video hack?

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I have posted this on a few other forums.  So far nobody has responded, so I'm guessing it has never been done.

I think an Amiga 1000 should be able to run S-Video.  There is plenty of room on the back of the case for it, and I believe all the signals should be available.  I have been poking around and managed to find a good source for the luma signal, but not the chroma.   I have the schematic for the A1000 but it is a scanned copy of a hand-drawn schematic and it is a bit tough to follow.

I think this project can be done if there are some better experts out there.  It would make the Amiga 1000 far more useable on modern display devices.  I wouldn't even mind if I had to remove some component which would render the composite output inoperative (after all, it is easy to convert S-video to composite with an external cable)

I'd love to do the same thing to the A500, but studying the schematic I don't believe it is possible without additional circuitry.

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Yes.. I just looked at the link for the Neo-Bitz.  It looks like that would work great, and you are telling me you've already tried it and it does work.  So, that is awesome.  However, the order page doesn't work and I can't find a price.  I just emailed the guy who runs the site so I'm waiting for a reply.  if they are cheap enough, I might buy two of them.  one for my A500 and the other for my A1000.

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Yep.. I think I am going to get one of these boards and try it out.  

Yes.. the Amiga 1000, 500, and 2000 all could benefit greatly from this.  In fact, I kind of look at it like this.  You can buy a 15" flat-screen LCD TV these days for cheap.. around $150 to $200.  It will probably have a component input and definatly have an S-video input.  I am pretty sure that if you had a good quality S-video from the amiga, then this setup should give you results at least as good as the original 1084.. If you had the component connections, I'm pretty sure it would probably be superior to the 1084.  This would allow the classic line of Amigas to be used with a modern video display.

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Dr_Righteous, I've never heard of this VGA adapter.. and I have no such thing.  I was planning to plug it into the 23 pin video output for testing.. But my eventual goal is to mount the board inside the A1000 and add an S-Video jack to the back of it.  I still need to open up my A500 and see if there is room for such a thing.  

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>> One of these days I'd like to etch out an internal
>> video slot PCB and attach the Neobitz parts to it.
>> That'd be so much cleaner.

That is essentially what I plan to do, mount it all internal.  I just hope it doesn't consume too much power.  I doubt it will.