A Grand Day Out

[rubber_jonnie]

Both the composite and the s-video leads you have there seem to be ringing, giving you ghosting. You may need a ferrite core on them or get better cables.

I have some ferrite cores on the way

Also, the RGBI to SCART cable with switching for standard composite arrived today and the RGBI 80 column looks very nice in CP/M.

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And oddly it still does display on the other screen, though not a lot:

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I'll take that for sure.

[rubber_jonnie]

OK, so I have settled with my C28 display and found that by using a tweaked picture setting (Brightness and contrast) and no Lumafix128 I can get a workable, if not half decent image over SVideo:

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So I'll be sticking with that.

I've also found that with judicious use of the switchable RGBi/Composite cable I picked up, that it will dual display in C128 and C64 mode, though the left hand TV needs its picture adjusting like the right hand TV:

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And of course it'll work with the obligatory 80 column mode too:

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Overall this cable has turned out to be rather good for about £20

[rubber_jonnie]

So it seems that the C128 had a minor snag up it's sleeve for me today:

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This is the F1 key, and I don't know if it broke accidentally or if it was on the way out and I 'helped' it by knocking the keyboard. Anyway, it was broken, however I did manage to find the missing bits of plastic and glue it all back together:

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Luckily the spring and keycap hadn't gone very far either.


All back together now and just fine:

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Altogether it took about an hour, because for once in my life I gave the superglue enough time to harden properly!

[PhilC]

@rubber_jonnie the stems are the same as on a plus/4. I have a few spares if needed.

[rubber_jonnie]

@rubber_jonnie the stems are the same as on a plus/4. I have a few spares if needed.

Cool, thanks and good to know.

Hopefully it'll hold, but I'll let you know if otherwise

[rubber_jonnie]

A huge thank you to @PhilC for sending out these:

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Since I had a broken one on my C128. I should be able to get this all sorted later today