VectorGamer Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Has anyone found a converter box that works well with connecting Atari 2600, Colecovision et al to a VGA monitor? I have a couple of flat panel monitors that I want to keep for retro gaming night instead of ditching them when I replace my home desktop with a notebook. I have found some of these, which I could also use for NES or Flashback composite connections on some, but none that convert the coax to VGA... http://www.svideo.com/video2vga1.html http://www.ramelectronics.net/audio-video/...ductname-en-asc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwilkson Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Has anyone found a converter box that works well with connecting Atari 2600, Colecovision et al to a VGA monitor? I have a couple of flat panel monitors that I want to keep for retro gaming night instead of ditching them when I replace my home desktop with a notebook. I have found some of these, which I could also use for NES or Flashback composite connections on some, but none that convert the coax to VGA... http://www.svideo.com/video2vga1.html http://www.ramelectronics.net/audio-video/...ductname-en-asc (disclaimer: I'm speaking only for Atari units...I know nothing of CV) Do you just want to be able to use the monitors? Or are you hoping to have VGA quality images? If you try to convert the RF to VGA, you'll have a lousy image compared to native VGA. It will work...it just less than ideal. I don't think it's very easy to buy an RF demodulator - which is what you want. Your best bet is to use a VCR to convert the RF to composite or s-video. Then use one of the converters you found to go from that to VGA. But every time you convert the signal, you lose quality. There's really not much you can do about that. But it might be ok depending on how picky you are. Or, if you feel like making your 2600 do native VGA (640x480) and you are willing to wait for it, I have a working prototype of a 2600 VGA card. I'm waiting on PCBs to arrive hopefully this Friday. If everything checks out on those (that's a _big_ "if") then I hope to do some beta testing RSN. The 7800 version would follow depending on how popular the 2600 version is. Sadly, my tech would only work for Atari machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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