Post by sdw on Apr 15, 2007 12:53:31 GMT -5
Once upon a time in a big country far away over the big ocean lived a mad scientist named expertsetup. In his dark dungeons two horrible hybrids where created.
One was a DTV2 with NTSC output, the other a Hummer with PAL output. These creations were so evil that he did not dare have both of the living under the same roof. Instead he found a buyer, another mad scientist named sdw who was known for many strange things, like torturing poor calculators
However, the new master was a cruel one, he soldered a couple of new wires onto the Hummer and then forced it to live in a cardboard box :
;D
Well, that lame background story was my way of trying to cover for the poor mod. I'm just not handy - AT ALL. Soldering the wires for the keyboard and IEC was the pushing the boundaries of my skills, trying to build a real nice installation would be far beyond it.
I'm a software guy, and this setup will serve my purposes I guess.
However I really need to get the video and sound fix done, because as it is now there almost is no 256 color mode, more like a 64 color mode since colors in blocks of four are very similar.
Also the discrepancy in SID channel volumes is a bit grating when you have heard a tune many times on the "real" thing.
Maybe I'll try and find someone with better knowledge to do these mods for me, because those resistors are SMALL! My hand-shaking when holding the soldering iron covers about three resistors wide, so there's no way I'll be able to do it.
Anyway, I'm happy, the system works and I've begin doing some developing for it.
I set up a little cross-dev chain, might not be the most optimal, but it works:
1) Assemble program with Kick assembler under Windows PC nr 1.
2) Copy .prg file to PC-floppy
3) Eject floppy and put it it into drive of PC nr 2, which is running DOS and 64HDD.
4) Load prg on DTV that is connected with XE1541 to PC nr 2.
One was a DTV2 with NTSC output, the other a Hummer with PAL output. These creations were so evil that he did not dare have both of the living under the same roof. Instead he found a buyer, another mad scientist named sdw who was known for many strange things, like torturing poor calculators
However, the new master was a cruel one, he soldered a couple of new wires onto the Hummer and then forced it to live in a cardboard box :
;D
Well, that lame background story was my way of trying to cover for the poor mod. I'm just not handy - AT ALL. Soldering the wires for the keyboard and IEC was the pushing the boundaries of my skills, trying to build a real nice installation would be far beyond it.
I'm a software guy, and this setup will serve my purposes I guess.
However I really need to get the video and sound fix done, because as it is now there almost is no 256 color mode, more like a 64 color mode since colors in blocks of four are very similar.
Also the discrepancy in SID channel volumes is a bit grating when you have heard a tune many times on the "real" thing.
Maybe I'll try and find someone with better knowledge to do these mods for me, because those resistors are SMALL! My hand-shaking when holding the soldering iron covers about three resistors wide, so there's no way I'll be able to do it.
Anyway, I'm happy, the system works and I've begin doing some developing for it.
I set up a little cross-dev chain, might not be the most optimal, but it works:
1) Assemble program with Kick assembler under Windows PC nr 1.
2) Copy .prg file to PC-floppy
3) Eject floppy and put it it into drive of PC nr 2, which is running DOS and 64HDD.
4) Load prg on DTV that is connected with XE1541 to PC nr 2.