Btw I’m just now learning about the Sophia 2 and now wondering if I might be better off going that route and converting the dvi to hdmi. I am happy with the rgbtohdmi but it has some minor random glitching and noise. Does the Sophia 2 have the same pixel perfect resolution? Would you recommend the Sophia 2 over the lumacode/rgbtohdmi solution? One thing to note is this is a laptop all in one build and I want the smallest footprint as possible to back everything inside.
@@sideburn Sophia is a nice solution and basically on a par with the perfectly crisp picture you get from Lumacode/RGB2HDMI, and will hook up to an HDMI port with a passive DVI to HDMI cable. Audio is the problem, since there's still no digital audio source to mix in with the Sophia DVI signal, although as I understand it, PokeyMAX 4 will provide digitial audio which I assume can somehow be wired up to a DVI in accordance with the audio over DVI protocol. Other than that, you can install a headphone jack to carry mono or stereo audio, or just pick off mono audio from the legacy monitor jack.
@@flashjazzcat no audio with rgbtohdmi either. I have a separate amplifier so that’s a non issue. Just wondering if I should fork out the cash to switch from rgbtohdmi to Sophia or not.
The owner didn't ask for any special provision; presumably he's just taking audio from the legacy monitor jack. Other than that, a 3.5mm headphone jack could easily be wired up and attched to a suitable spot on the motherboard at the rear of the machine.
Good point - thanks. I forgot the links on Sunday. I'll add the GTIAdigitizer links shown in the video, but I have no links for RGB2HDMI aside from what I just Googled, including the Github repo: github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
On my channel I had lots of issues with an RGBTOHDMI and a STFM. I was trying to capture 12 bits for hi red mono. I had to drop to 3 bits and it was great. I got some additional boards from a different Atari fan source. Just worked. So sometimes one RGBTOHDMI is just "odd". But the video quality is great.
@@stephenhookings1985 I've heard a few tales of GTIAdigitizer and RGB2HDMI both being difficult to set up, but fortunately - or perhaps unfortunately - everything just worked in this instance. As mentioned in the video: I could really use a stock RGB2HDMI (despite the fact I don't NEED one) in order to make a comprehensive video about it.
thanks for the update mate. Good to see this. I got 6 ataris, haven't done anything to them yet - but s-video mod. So nice to see options.
What a cool setup - thanks for showing the comparison to stock video.
seemed impressive!
The noise you get on the right can be removed in the geometry menu and change the max width / horizontal offset
Great - thanks for the tip!
Btw I’m just now learning about the Sophia 2 and now wondering if I might be better off going that route and converting the dvi to hdmi. I am happy with the rgbtohdmi but it has some minor random glitching and noise.
Does the Sophia 2 have the same pixel perfect resolution? Would you recommend the Sophia 2 over the lumacode/rgbtohdmi solution?
One thing to note is this is a laptop all in one build and I want the smallest footprint as possible to back everything inside.
@@sideburn Sophia is a nice solution and basically on a par with the perfectly crisp picture you get from Lumacode/RGB2HDMI, and will hook up to an HDMI port with a passive DVI to HDMI cable. Audio is the problem, since there's still no digital audio source to mix in with the Sophia DVI signal, although as I understand it, PokeyMAX 4 will provide digitial audio which I assume can somehow be wired up to a DVI in accordance with the audio over DVI protocol. Other than that, you can install a headphone jack to carry mono or stereo audio, or just pick off mono audio from the legacy monitor jack.
@@flashjazzcat no audio with rgbtohdmi either. I have a separate amplifier so that’s a non issue. Just wondering if I should fork out the cash to switch from rgbtohdmi to Sophia or not.
@@flashjazzcat this is a laptop build everything will be internal and a flat panel lcd attached.
Wow!
Could you tell us later how you would have proceeded with the addition of sound?
The owner didn't ask for any special provision; presumably he's just taking audio from the legacy monitor jack. Other than that, a 3.5mm headphone jack could easily be wired up and attched to a suitable spot on the motherboard at the rear of the machine.
Awesome. Thank you!
Do you have a link to the RGB2HDMI device?
Good point - thanks. I forgot the links on Sunday. I'll add the GTIAdigitizer links shown in the video, but I have no links for RGB2HDMI aside from what I just Googled, including the Github repo: github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
On my channel I had lots of issues with an RGBTOHDMI and a STFM. I was trying to capture 12 bits for hi red mono. I had to drop to 3 bits and it was great.
I got some additional boards from a different Atari fan source. Just worked. So sometimes one RGBTOHDMI is just "odd". But the video quality is great.
@@stephenhookings1985 I've heard a few tales of GTIAdigitizer and RGB2HDMI both being difficult to set up, but fortunately - or perhaps unfortunately - everything just worked in this instance. As mentioned in the video: I could really use a stock RGB2HDMI (despite the fact I don't NEED one) in order to make a comprehensive video about it.
In the USA Texelec has them. In EU there's the MCE2HDMI which is the same in an enclosure from Serdashop.
Would the GTIAdigitizer work on the 600xl?
It Will work with any GTIA bar possiablity of the C020120 - French SECAM GTIA (FGTIA)