From: matt (galaga_at_slingshot.co.nz)
Date: 2008-04-24 07:32:21
its a video to RGB converter
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From: <hlpublic@freestart.hu>
To: <cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: Strange looking (French) C64
> Hi guys!
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> I thought I'd ask whether someone had seen something like this one before.
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> http://coroners.no-ip.hu/foo/DSC00110.JPG
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> http://coroners.no-ip.hu/foo/DSC00111.JPG
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> This is a French C64 that I've just bought off from eBay. ...I've been
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> r a SECAM C64, and as it seems, I actually failed but found something
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> ell, almost) similarly interesting. I don't speak French, but as far as I
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> an tell, the sticker above says "PAL or RGB television". The transcoder
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> rd on one of the photos (I found it mounted under the keyboard block, just
> where I'd have expected to find the PAL-SECAM transcoder board) doesn't
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> lly look like something capable of encoding into SECAM... it'd most
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> y decode PAL (so the TDA3510 suggests), but... where's the rest?...
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> Also (...finally) I received the machine with an old-looking true DIN-8 to
> SCART cable. ...There were no special peripherals with the computer, seems
> like it had been used just for playing games simply loaded from tape.
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> d doubt that a large number of non-professional C64 users would have
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> ed buying such relatively special cables for the computer just for the
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> of playing games back then.
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> All in all, this looks to me like a C64 with analog RGB support.
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> I couldn't really test it yet, as (as it can be seen on the photo) the
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> ine got slightly damaged on its way here, ...and unfortunately, so did the
> transcoder board :-/.
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> The machine's composite output is PAL (it works, despite the damage).
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> cting the cable that I had received the computer with to a SCART tv and
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> tching the tv to RGB mode, I got black screen (...may well be because of
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> e slightly damaged board, but I don't know that for sure yet). I couldn't
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> ync to the UHF signal generated by the RF modulator... I could see signs
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> at I found the signal band, but the signal couldn't be identified by my tv
> as a valid signal. No signs of any SECAM signals anywhere whatsoever.
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> at's where I'm ATM.
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> ...I'm really curious if someone knows something more about these
> machines.
> ... some light on this would be greatly appreciated.
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> Best regards,
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> Levente
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