Re: Monitor pet 8032 on commodore educator 64

From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 18:17:47 +0100
Message-ID: <CAESs-_xaTaf_YKRtKh8aNW8tCW1=N5VwHsSnvkj0uYgR0=CXWA_at_mail.gmail.com>
Hi Rob,

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 6:03 PM Rob Clarke <crock_at_clarke-family.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Yes you can, but you need one of these:
>
> http://inchocks.co.uk/commodore/4064/4064_VideoBoard.JPG
>
> The is the one in a PET 4064, which is similar to an Educator64, but uses a standard PET monitor. The video board takes the luma signal from the 64 and splits it into the h-ysnc, v-sync, and video signal expected by the PET monitor, but anything other than black is shown as green, so you will only get true monochrome images such as these:

Very interesting! I didn't know such a board existed. Do you know if
it works with the 9" PET monitors or with the 12" ones?
And with PAL or NTSC C64 or both?

> http://inchocks.co.uk/commodore/4064/4064_BoulderDash.JPG
>
> AFAIK, no-one has found or reverse engineered a schematic yet.

well, maybe if a copper side image existed too, I might reverse
engineer the schematic :)

Frank
Received on 2020-05-30 00:09:14

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