RGBtoHDMI has been an abolute gift to amiga owners. It's a great project and well worth it for the sheer quality of the output. It's a shame that it's so hard to get in an A600 but definitely still worth it to bypass the analogue conversion altogether.
It's actually rather nuts. Instead of seeing hardware manufacturers make all this tech- it's done by the hobbyists, and then the designs sent to a company that can print the circuit boards- and then the chips added in the post. Crazy mad!
Love the video! Picard makes me laugh btw. I do have a question: does hooking it up to HDMI make PAL/NTSC not matter? I ask as I bought a PAL A600 and am in the US, and did find a PAL/NTSC monitor off ebay, but this looks like a better solution.
If you're in the US and you got a pal Amiga, you may need to find either a US PSU or a step down converter first. If you have a pal monitor, stick with that! Nothing better than the real deal
@@TeamPandory I got a US plug PSU (from Poland) off the same website as the A600 (Ami64), so hopefully no issues! They said that they sold PAL units to the US without any issues, and I did get a SCART video adapter box too, just in case. Considering the lengths I had gone back in the day to get monitors to work on my A1200, this should be easier/ok LOL
Nice video, thanks. Is all the output via the hdmi? - I'm confused about the switch? So is your monitor a 15khz jobbie, or something like 31khz+; and the pistorm has done all the lovely stuff a flicker fixer/scan doubler does, but for less wonga? (but no vga).
The monitor here is a fairly modern 1080p IPS that has no 15khz support. RGB2HDMI converts the Amiga video signal so you can display on new HDMI monitors... As you said, something like a scan doubler with less wonga ^-^
I have the ossc, and thought that I'd be able to do it with multiple consoles etc, but it's honestly very faffy and I hardly used it. Having an a600 with very clear hdmi coming directly out is a night and day difference.
@@TeamPandory There are probably many, but I've just checked and the RGB2HDMI uses the same deinterlacing method as Winuae, so it should all work just fine.
It's probably my favourite. It's named "HYPERSTAR" ... Probably a Quick Joy or Quick Shot. I doubt it's anywhere new, but auction sites like ebay should have them used.
@@TeamPandory then you're doing a great job! xD I love the technicality of it. I would love to see more, namely emulation vs real in a digital foundry kind of way, with raw data, as you've done regarding input lag
Sounds like Picard approves. Amazing that you got him in for a voice recording - hope you gave him plenty of cups of tea!
He definitely approves... And thankfully brings a box of PGtips for me every now and then.
.... As he finishes all of the good stuff 😲
RGBtoHDMI has been an abolute gift to amiga owners. It's a great project and well worth it for the sheer quality of the output. It's a shame that it's so hard to get in an A600 but definitely still worth it to bypass the analogue conversion altogether.
This is a truly wonderful add on for the Amiga 600. I had compatibility issues using it with my Furia, but it works great with my a630 accelerator.
The Furia hates most of the sdcards I own. The best one that works? A black Toshiba 8gb / 32gb with the 4 in the circle.
Oh my god Tim! I will remove the dust of my Amiga and I will buy one of this wonderful rgbtohdmi adapter! Thnxs for all your work!
... ! No way! Were you waiting for a solution ?
I have a feeling that, although ingenious, many will look at the procedure and (using a line from the video) say 'I can't be arsed' :-)
Soldering? Yeah, screw that! - But outside that- it's pretty damn easy now to get a solid video signal- Which wasn't the case a couple of years ago.
seeing all this old tech puts in to perspective how fer we've come
It's actually rather nuts. Instead of seeing hardware manufacturers make all this tech- it's done by the hobbyists, and then the designs sent to a company that can print the circuit boards- and then the chips added in the post. Crazy mad!
Love the video! Picard makes me laugh btw. I do have a question: does hooking it up to HDMI make PAL/NTSC not matter? I ask as I bought a PAL A600 and am in the US, and did find a PAL/NTSC monitor off ebay, but this looks like a better solution.
If you're in the US and you got a pal Amiga, you may need to find either a US PSU or a step down converter first. If you have a pal monitor, stick with that! Nothing better than the real deal
@@TeamPandory I got a US plug PSU (from Poland) off the same website as the A600 (Ami64), so hopefully no issues! They said that they sold PAL units to the US without any issues, and I did get a SCART video adapter box too, just in case. Considering the lengths I had gone back in the day to get monitors to work on my A1200, this should be easier/ok LOL
Nice video, thanks. Is all the output via the hdmi? - I'm confused about the switch? So is your monitor a 15khz jobbie, or something like 31khz+; and the pistorm has done all the lovely stuff a flicker fixer/scan doubler does, but for less wonga? (but no vga).
The monitor here is a fairly modern 1080p IPS that has no 15khz support. RGB2HDMI converts the Amiga video signal so you can display on new HDMI monitors... As you said, something like a scan doubler with less wonga ^-^
Neat, but I wonder if the cost isn't going to be almost the same as something like the Open Source Scan Converter.
I have the ossc, and thought that I'd be able to do it with multiple consoles etc, but it's honestly very faffy and I hardly used it.
Having an a600 with very clear hdmi coming directly out is a night and day difference.
This looks great! It even has the infamous NTSC black bottom bar. Are there any issues with interlace coding hacks in certain demos?
Not that I know of. Can you throw out some examples and I can test.
@@TeamPandory There are probably many, but I've just checked and the RGB2HDMI uses the same deinterlacing method as Winuae, so it should all work just fine.
that joystick looks cool what is it and were can i get one
It's probably my favourite. It's named "HYPERSTAR" ... Probably a Quick Joy or Quick Shot. I doubt it's anywhere new, but auction sites like ebay should have them used.
@@TeamPandory thank you i'll have to have a look
@@mikedavidson1142 there are similar left hand sticks. Search also for qj joystick
WHat game is that at the end credits of that purple Blob? is it Globdule? is it ECS or AGA?
I think it's the ecs version.
Please tell them to make one for Commodore 64. Thank You.
From the same dev, actually! - Check this! github.com/c0pperdragon/C64-Video-Enhancement
One more extremely underrated channel found! gotta find them all! xD
Thanks for the kind message! We actually don't know what we're doing :-)
@@TeamPandory then you're doing a great job! xD I love the technicality of it. I would love to see more, namely emulation vs real in a digital foundry kind of way, with raw data, as you've done regarding input lag