using a small lcd/parking monitor

i just found the thread I was looking for, it seems these cheap parking LCDs/headrest LCDs from Hong Kong really do work. Which is great, as they only cost £15-20.

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/6895/ … r-for-c64/

If anyone has experience of these, or particular recommendations then feel free to post and share the knowledge. I am especially interested in the 4.5" size or thereabouts. Screen resolution, x/y pixel count etc?

I would like to mount it on the case somehow. I was thinking of building it into the case, which requires some butchery of the C64 case. But if I can attach it somehow without damaging the C64 this would be preferable, so any advice on this would also be useful.

Last edited by bmot (Nov 18, 2012 12:48 pm)

thanks, will check it out

yes please, that looks perfect. no annoying plastic bits round the edge, and correct resolution. can you let me know if it fills the whole screen or if there's a black border with C64? or post an image

thanks a lot for the info

EDIT: I just saw the shipping, no good for me as i'm in Germany. Shipping is not quite as "worldwide" as they say!

Shipping to: Worldwide
Excludes: Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Guadeloupe, Sierra Leone, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Wallis and Futuna, French Guiana, Anguilla, Gambia, El Salvador, Guam, Micronesia, Dominican Republic, Mayotte, Cameroon, Guyana, Azerbaijan Republic, Suriname, Oman, Tonga, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, New Caledonia, San Marino, Guinea-Bissau, Bhutan, Senegal, Eritrea, Togo, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Burundi, Iraq, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Belize, Aruba, Uruguay, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Western Sahara, Congo, Republic of the, American Samoa, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Spain, Macedonia, Liechtenstein, Bermuda, Benin, Algeria, Montserrat, Zambia, Russian Federation, Somalia, Antigua and Barbuda, Vanuatu, Swaziland, Italy, Ecuador, Albania, Ethiopia, Guernsey, Laos, Niger, Tanzania, Ukraine, Panama, Burkina Faso, Kyrgyzstan, Jersey, Venezuela, Ghana, Reunion, Djibouti, Chile, Cape Verde Islands, Martinique, Mali, Moldova, Botswana, Croatia, Republic of, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Cambodia, Madagascar, Portugal, Indonesia, Paraguay, Cayman Islands, Lebanon, Saint Helena, Rwanda, Liberia, Seychelles, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Libya, Nigeria, Lesotho, Central African Republic, Saint Lucia, Mauritius, Guinea, Jordan, Bulgaria, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Kiribati, Chad, Turkmenistan, Andorra, Greece, Grenada, Costa Rica, Haiti, Mexico, Greenland, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Africa, Netherlands Antilles, Nepal, Bahrain, Bahamas, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Palau, Malawi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nicaragua, Angola, South America, Tunisia, Uganda, Brazil, Turkey, Western Samoa, Barbados, Germany, France, Tuvalu, Jamaica, Egypt, Mozambique, Namibia, Niue, Peru, Honduras, Brunei Darussalam, South Africa, Gabon Republic, Zimbabwe

Last edited by bmot (Nov 19, 2012 9:51 am)

I have used these in a c64, vic20 and a600 with decent results. Ordering two of the same screens does not guarantee you *won't* end up with two completely different boards.

thanks kvee, would love to see some photos

i sent an email to the seller, I couldn't find another one like that (without the frame) on ebay. hopefully he'll say it's no problem

if you can't find it then don't worry but thanks for trying. not sure a pic of the nes would be much use to me. i just got a reply from the seller on ebay, who said they don't post to countries where they've got bad feedback for deliveries going missing. might be to do with customs, but I still think that's stupidly tight of them. he said he could invoice me separately if i really wanted to but i think i'd rather find a seller in germany. however, there are only 2 types of screen on german ebay at the moment, so will carry on looking