Post by Jurbo on Feb 16, 2010 17:00:47 GMT -5
Hi all!
Lately I have had a burst of new interest in the DTV, and although my hacked DTV is about two years old, I thought I'd like to show it to you, finally.
The DTV is housed inside a Keysonic ACK-595 mini keyboard (I think others have used the same model), and has all the usual ports - joystick 1 & 2, power in, serial, s-video and audio. I get composite video by using a simple adapter at the end of the s-video cable. The flash rom was replaced a year ago, when I bricked the old one (thanks to JSaily for the replacement or actually an upgrade chip).
The latest modifications were done just a week ago, when I finally had the motivation and guts to convert from the old SpiffColorFix to the SpiffLumaFix and add s-video. The backside of my DTV has an ugly empty slot for the original AV-cable, but I think I can live with it. The image quality (both s-video and composite) really improved with the SpiffLumaFix, and is very close to a real C64, at least on a Commodore 1084S. While converting from the SpiffColorFix to the SpiffLumaFix, I first had to go back to the original resistor configuration, a nasty job that had kept me from doing it earlier. I grabbed screenshots from all the conversion stages with a Gainward 6600GT VIVO card, so I was able to check how the picture looked in each configuration. I will post them later, if you guys are interested (it's eight 500 kb .png files, what would be the smart way to publish them?).
Okay, here are the photos of my DTV:
Thanks for checking it out - personally I'm very happy with the little thing!
Lately I have had a burst of new interest in the DTV, and although my hacked DTV is about two years old, I thought I'd like to show it to you, finally.
The DTV is housed inside a Keysonic ACK-595 mini keyboard (I think others have used the same model), and has all the usual ports - joystick 1 & 2, power in, serial, s-video and audio. I get composite video by using a simple adapter at the end of the s-video cable. The flash rom was replaced a year ago, when I bricked the old one (thanks to JSaily for the replacement or actually an upgrade chip).
The latest modifications were done just a week ago, when I finally had the motivation and guts to convert from the old SpiffColorFix to the SpiffLumaFix and add s-video. The backside of my DTV has an ugly empty slot for the original AV-cable, but I think I can live with it. The image quality (both s-video and composite) really improved with the SpiffLumaFix, and is very close to a real C64, at least on a Commodore 1084S. While converting from the SpiffColorFix to the SpiffLumaFix, I first had to go back to the original resistor configuration, a nasty job that had kept me from doing it earlier. I grabbed screenshots from all the conversion stages with a Gainward 6600GT VIVO card, so I was able to check how the picture looked in each configuration. I will post them later, if you guys are interested (it's eight 500 kb .png files, what would be the smart way to publish them?).
Okay, here are the photos of my DTV:
Thanks for checking it out - personally I'm very happy with the little thing!