Monitor Connection?

[Andi B.]

Hello all,
in the eighties my brothe and I had a cool black color monitor (Prism?) for our QL but now 25 years later I'm looking for an alternative to connect the QL to a modern VGA screen.
Unfortunately we have sold everything when we bought an Amiga decades ago...

Has anybody any ideas for a guy without deeper knowledge but a soldering gun (maybe using a CGA/EGA/YUV TO VGA converter from the Bay)?
Which possibilities are there to convert the QL video output to any kind of usable signal?

Thank you!

[belg4rion67]

Hi dear, I'm Paolo from Italy and in my country there's a web seller that has a cheap videoconverter: view at this link: http://shop.gruppoarea.info/elettronica ... s_id=19319
is only for composite but works fine on my Speccy; for my QL I'm using a Samsung LCD monitor/tv connected via Scart and even this works very well (even if only with QL in tv mode)

[vanpeebles]

http://www.theqlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12

That thread should be just the job for you!

[polka]

As I stated in my introduction, I did myself a simple QL to SCART cable that I use now with my flat screen LCD TV and indeed get 512x256 resolution very well. Tomorrow I will open it to remember what is inside and tell you...

Paul

[Andi B.]

Now i prepared a Scart cable (while waiting for my VGA-converter for the monitor).
Unfotunately does the TV shows nothing when directly connected and using a videorecorder as a kind of adapter the TV shows an colored image but it moves fast from right to left and a little bit from bottom to top.

Any ideas how/if this can be fixed?

Greetings from Munich
Andi

[belg4rion67]

Hi, for my QL I have made a scart cable like this: http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/ ... ableQL.htm
All resistor enter in scart shell wothout problem because are all 1/4 watt power and on my previous TV set (an old analog Philips system) images was fine, with my new Samsung TV/monitor works very fine

[Andi B.]

... I had a cool black color monitor (Prism?) for our QL but now 25 years later I'm looking for an alternative to connect the QL to a modern VGA screen.

What a coincidence that last week I could buy the same model PRISM QL 14 monitor we had in the good old days...
It was offered on ebay as defect and I got it for 1,- EUR (+ shipping). In fact the circuit board has a crack but I could solder the broken conducting paths...now it works!

But one little thing is not 100% perfect: There are vertical dark stripes visible on the left side (see pictures). Does anybody know, why this occures and how this can be fixed?

[vanpeebles]

I wonder if that is a degaussing issue?

[Dave]

Nope.

That's a ring/bounce issue. There are so many causes, from poor quality lead with no ferrite cores on it, to capacitor issues to....

I suspect putting a couple of ferrite cores one on each end of the cable could help some to get a cleaner signal into the monitor.