Den Wed, 02 May 2018 16:02:13 +0000 skrev Terry Raymond <traymond160@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I hooked an older Bread Bin up to my Theatre view TV, only on the > front panel has the RCA connectors for video and sound. > > If you have just the C64 user manual it has the Video connector > pinouts, of course use the: > Video out and Audio out pins, using a multimeter double check which > pins and the other end is the RCA connectors, see which one is video > or audio. The C64 manual, at least the older ones, only has 5 of the 8 pins documented... > If you're Monitor cables aren't marked, if you plug Video into Audio > etc you will blow up the VIC and SID chips. No way. As long as ground is on the correct pin, VIC can of course withstand the higher impedance / lower load of an audio input. I don't think a SID chip would die by loading it with 75 ohm either. What can kill stuff is connecting and disconnecting stuff while a ground loop forms between the monitor and the computer (directly on a C128/C128D with it's grounded PSU, via the disk drive on a C64 with it's ungrounded PSU). The crappy RCA connectors usually makes contact with the signal before the ground. Disconnect all power leads for the computer and all accessories like disk drives before connecting or disconnecting any cables to be on the safe side, or run all stuff via a power strip (and don't connect anything else like a cable TV aerial cable). > I believe you may only be using the RF anntenna connection but it's > not very good. > > Use a Commodore monitor cable. For composite video and audio, any adapter cable intended for hooking up old european 5-pin DIN audio equipment works fine as long as you use the correct leads. Those have four RCA connectors and they will be (in some order) audio out, audio in (don't use this unless you know what you're doing), composite video out and monochrome video out. For S-Video which this thread really is about, you need an 8-pin DIN connector. Make sure to get the right one, there are two different kinds of 8-pin DIN connectors. One where the pins form a perfect circle except one pin is missing. The other has five pins in a perfect half circle but the outer two pins (6 and 7) "sags" outwards. Can't remember which one C64 uses. IIRC only one of theese two are truly a DIN connector according to the (west) german DIN standard. -- (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help (O.o) him achieve world domination. (> <) Come join the dark side. /_|_\ We have cookies.Received on 2018-05-02 23:00:02
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