Make your own S-Video for your 8-bit card easily and quickly
Hi
Heres how you can make your own top quality S-Video video board for almost any Atari 8 bit. It uses few parts and would take minutes to install.
The Atari series shares the same common IC graphics chip (GTIA) and has Luma and chroma produced at a high level. Unfortunately Atari made an ass of this on the XL series (particularly the 600XL) and didnt improve much with the XE series.
I produced a module that did this a few years back but thought i would make the details on how you
I attempted to do this mod to get s-video from my NTSC 600xl and I think I'm missing something. I wired chroma and luma to two separate RCA cables to diagnose the problem. When I connect these cables to composite, I get no picture from luma and a dotty, scrolling, black with dots of white picture on chroma of which I can vaguely make out Star Raiders. The picture looks fine when I undue the mod and connect the computer through RF. Can someone please post a picture of this mod on a 600xl so I can