What about throwing a modern TV or monitor in there and relying on the
software for the CRT effect?
Eris
On Nov 15, 2016 8:47 PM, "Simon Heath" <icefoxen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well I've spent two weekends fighting with the old computer, two weekends
messing around trying to make the video output work with a RPi, and $60 on
video converters, and I'm officially sick of it. I have a converter board
that claims to be able to output to the old-ass CRT format the monitor
accepts, but its VGA output only outputs, oddly enough, VGA. I thought it
would output old-ass-CRT-through-a-VGA-connector, which is what the
monitor is hooked up to accept, somehow, through some kind of weird control
board screwed into the case in the least accessible location possible.
There are pins and wires on the converter board I have that MIGHT output
the right signal, but I'm not enough of an electrical engineer to be able
to figure out how to wire the damn thing together and I'm not patient
enough to try.
So if people want to pass a hat around to spring for a new monitor I'll
gladly help put the thing together and make it work, but I don't have the
cash to do it myself. If someone else wants to solve the video issue I'll
take on the software side of things, but I'm bloody sick of fighting with
it. So, that's it.
All my notes are on the wiki: http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/
wiki/index.php?title=ArcadeMachine
Simon
