Hook up a C64 to my A3000?

[TheGoose]

Hey video gurus, can I hook up my C64 so that I can see it on the Amiga screen? I am wondering about the Village Tronic Pablo, what does a video encoder do? Is it like a capture card? I have a Picasso II+ in the machine.

What sort of hardware does that? The C64 has svideo out.

[save2600]

What kind of monitor do you have? If it's a Commodore monitor (1702/1802/1080/1084), you can modify your S-video cable to work with 'em and get a kick ass picture that way. Best and easiest way to do it.

Doing it the way you're thinking, you'll end up with a crummy picture and experience some lag. Really not feasible, logical, economical or desirable.  :lol:

[TheGoose]

I don't have any more 15Khz NTSC monitors these days Save. I suppose I could do this on my Windoze box, but if I can do it on the Amiga I'd like to try that.

[Damion]

You could do it with a PIV and Paloma, there are probably a few other ways but I'm not familiar with the hardware. One major issue with the Paloma is it's PAL only (the software at least), and as Save mentioned, you'd want to configure some 50Hz screenmodes to minimize tearing.

[Franko]

Not sure if your trying to display your C64 video output on top of a Workbench screen or just trying to display your C64 on a monitor that cant handle 15Khz...

This company supplies solutions to both, I have bought many item from them before and they only use the highest quality components (hence the high prices) but I've tried many such products over the years and to be honest you be hard pushed to fin such items that give you a better quality output...

Keene Electronics

(PS: you'll have to look around their site cos they've recently moved all the categories about...

[TheGoose]

Well the idea is to have the C64 viewable through some kind of capture card so I don't need another monitor in the room, just to crank up the C64 occasionally. I am just curious if a Pablo would let me "monitor" the incoming svideo feed.

Ah, so more reading, I'm getting it:

http://amiga.resource.cx/photos/photo2.pl?id=pablo&pg=1&res=med&lang=en

This just takes the video of the picasso II+ / IV and sends it out the svideo to be recorded by some other device, not for input.

Oh well. I'll find some capture card.

Thanks for posting

[Ral-Clan]

It would probably be way cheaper to buy a composite video to VGA converter for your C64:

http://cgi.ebay.com/RCA-Composite-S-video-VGA-VGA-Monitor-Converter-/120619073385?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1574ff69

Then plug the output of it and your Amiga into a VGA monitor switcher:

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-4-Port-Video-Moniter-VGA-S-VGA-Sharing-Switcher-Box-/320545695302?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa2032646

and the output of your switcher to the VGA monitor.

The bonus would be that your Amiga wouldn't have to be on every time you just wanted to play C64 games.

Of course, you could also run a C64 emulator on your Amiga too if you really wanted to.  Magic64 or Frodo.