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SO yesterday i got this small LCD TV with composite in ,
today i made atari > composite cable and all i got iz diz ::

ANYONE  HAD PROBLEM LIKE THIS BEFORE ??
its because my trashy cable or its the LCD problem ?
Atari with RF + TV works fine

TENX!

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That's noticeably a sync problem. Your atari is not sending a 15Khz signal to the monitor.
Have you wired it properly? is TOS set to High Res?

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ITS not a HI RES monitor --- its just sum deal extreme LCD TV with composite in : O

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I know what monitor it is, I mean, YOUR cabling or YOUR atari is outputting a horizontal scan frequency higher than 15Khz, this is why it looks like that, because that monitor will NOT accept that.

Last edited by akira^8GB (Feb 24, 2012 7:51 pm)

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MMM , SOLUTION = ?

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I couldnt get it to work in color composite mode period, until i got:
http://www.ambery.com/rgbcgatovgac.html

none of my lcds liked the sync rate!

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That's a scan converter, an upscaler to be precise. It is for making the 15Khz RGB signal work on a VGA monitor that needs a ~30Khz signal.
Kodek's monitor receives a 15Khz signal, but his Atari ST is sending a 30Khz signal (High Res mode is at 30Khz if I don't remember wrong).

As I said before, the route to get a composite signal out of an ST is usually complicated and I don't know how possible. I'll let an Atari ST connoisseur speak.

PS: check here: http://info-coach.fr/atari/hardware/interfaces.php

Last edited by akira^8GB (Feb 24, 2012 8:03 pm)

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yea i actually made cable like this

http://info-coach.fr/atari/hardware/int … site_cable

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AmigaManiac has just started selling his RGB adapters again.  Currently I have a Composite + S-Video to VGA converter on hand, the same one on the page, so I'll be ordering his RGB adapter soon.  Those two apparently work pretty good together to get a VGA out, by RGB to S-Video to VGA. It's been done on Amiga, and I do remember seeing someone with it on their ST as well!  I'll let you all know how it works out for me.

http://amigamaniac.com/RGB_to_PAL_NTSC_adapter.html

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STe has RF out?
Did you try 50 and 60Hz refresh?

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YUP Ste haz RF out // ++  umm where i should set that refresh rate ?

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I could never get my RF output to look right. sad

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This problem is related to horizontal scan, not to vertical refresh rate.
If you had a vertical refresh rate problem, you'd get a jumpy image that displaces in a vertical manner.

The anomaly you are getting comes from wrong horizontal scan as I said.
Try a game instead of TOS.

Last edited by akira^8GB (Mar 7, 2012 9:46 am)

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There is small utils/apps that let's you change between 50 and 60 Hz. Many game packs like "Pompey Pirates" and others let you switch in the game select menu.