I'm more of a lurker, instead of a poster, but I've been watching ben's projects for a while now.
Today I was going to try something but I thought maybe it would be better to ask someone who knew what they were doing first, so who better than you (all)?
I'm trying to figure out an easy (and preferably cheap) way of connecting a PSTwo (which unfortunately has to be intact) to a Commodore 1084S monitor.
The monitor has composite in so it already works but I was going to try to use the 9-pin vga port that it has instead. The reason for this is that my imported (NTSC) games only play B&W on this screen (it supports 50Hz and 60Hz so it *should* work). The TV I used to play them on went to TV Heaven a few days ago, leaving me with this B&W Nightmare.
I wonder if you could help me with this...
The monitor has a 9 pin female VGA port in the back together with 4 RCA's. 2 of those are audio, and the other two mention: CHROMA (RED RCA female jack) and LUMA\CVBS (Yellow RCA female jack)
This is the pinout I've been able to find together with some specs:
Characters: RGB, RGBI, 2000 characters, Composite, Seperated LCA, 1000 characters
Raster Frequency: 50 or 60Hz
Line Frequency: 15625 - 15750Hz
Sound Output: 1WRMS
Audio Signal: 1.0V P-P, 47K Ohm
Mains Voltage: 120 VAC, 60Hz
Power Consumption: 75W
Dimensions (H x W x D): 330 x 357 x 378 mm
Weight: 11 kg
....|Digital....|Analog
Pin|TTL Mode|RGB Analog Mode
1|Ground | Ground
2|Ground | Ground
3|Red | Red
4|Green | Green
5|Blue | Blue
6|Intensity|N/C
7|N/C|Composite Sync
8|Horiz.Sync| N/C
9|Vert. Sync| N/C
Is this the way to go so that I'm able to get PAL & NTSC video to show on my Old-but-stable-as-a-rock Monitor or is there a better way?
Thanks for your time (and hopefully your replies).
Marcos.
PS2 to 1084s
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Chroma means color, Luma means light.
The reason its black and white is you probably plugged a yellow composite plug into the luma connector. This will produce a black-and-white image as there is no color information.
Those two jacks together make an s-video input, It sounds like the easiest thing to do would be to get an s-video cable for your ps2, cut the s-video plug off, and attach two RCA type jacks.
No one uses separate jacks for s-video anymore, that thing is really old.
The reason its black and white is you probably plugged a yellow composite plug into the luma connector. This will produce a black-and-white image as there is no color information.
Those two jacks together make an s-video input, It sounds like the easiest thing to do would be to get an s-video cable for your ps2, cut the s-video plug off, and attach two RCA type jacks.
No one uses separate jacks for s-video anymore, that thing is really old.
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