Hi everyone, thanks to Miguel's example I ordered a GBS-8220 rgb converter from jammaboards.com. I received the unit yesterday ten days after ordering and managed to build a cable and try it out. 512x256 works fine. Unfortunately my Samsung display has a 1280x1024 native resolution with no letterboxing available so the picture is not as perfect as it could be. The converter board's closest resolution match is 1024x768. Overall image quality is fair. There seems to be some vertical jitter every now and then but it could be either the cable (not premium and a very average soldering job...) or my QL which does not display a rock solid picture through SCART to a tv.
My first impression is that the board is well worth the 39 USD it cost. The automatic scan worked perfectly once I figured out to connect composite, not vertical, sync from the QL to the sync input on the RGBS connector :) The occasional jitter does not bother me too much, the overall experience is still better than on the TV since I'm able to use 512x256. With a monitor that supports letterboxing the experience might be slightly better. I'm using an original QL with no extensions running a JS ROM. Cheers, Petri On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Miguel Angel Rodriguez Jodar <[email protected]> wrote: > El 15/09/2010 14:17, Peter escribió: > >> Miguel Angel Rodriguez Jodar wrote: >> >>> On the other way, I've managed to work it out using a RGB-to-VGA >>> converter, as used for connecting JAMMA boards to VGA monitors. >> >> Did you have to use the QL in TV mode or did full 512x256 work? > > Mmmm... I cannot remember... will try again this weekend, and will tell you. > >> Which QL did you use? > > A standard QL, english keyboard, Minerva 1.98. > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
