Re: Kaleidoscope questions

[Thomas Harte]

After a bit more experimentation, the green seems to come and go. To  
be honest, I'm finding the Blue Alpha VoiceBox much more entertaining,  
and I expect to be bored of that within half a day.

I don't think that I have at any point in my life managed to touch  
anything with a soldering iron and not break it. So I'll probably  
leave it. Better a Sam with heavy ghosting than one that doesn't work  
at all.

On 9 Apr 2008, at 21:26, Colin Piggot wrote:
Thomas Harte wrote:
Actually, now that I'm looking really, really closely, I can see some
extremely minor variations on the red and blue channels. I definitely
can't see the difference on green, though it may well be the less- 
than-
brilliant signal I'm getting.

Looks about right on blue and red, not sure why you aren't getting  
it on the
green too. Could be a duff transistor on the green channel (just  
thinking
out loud here!)

http://www.samcoupe.com/kalblue.bmp shows a screen capture when I  
last used
mine.

You've got an awful lot of ghosting on your video output, which will  
make
the picture less clear especially with the subtle changes by the
Kaleidoscope. If you are feeling adventurous with a soldering iron -  
replace
the inductor marked as L5 on the SAM motherboard with a wire link  
(or just
solder a wire link across it)


Is that really all that it is meant to do?

Yes.... useless isn't it? :)

Colin
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