Tuesday, 8 November 2011

ZX81 & Atari 2600 composite mod.

Hello everyone,
My latests projects have been on modifying my zx81and my Atari VCS, I started by modding my zx81 after trying out the rf output and not getting a great deal of picture, a poster on http://fignition.proboards.com suggested this mod, and I got great results.



So bouyed by my new found confidence I looked at possible ways of modifing the Atari, after a search on the web I foung this site to be the best source of help, however My Atari is a Sunnyvale 1978 model, and has a red pcb, so the location descpripiton of all the sites I looked at were different to the pics I viewed on line.

The Circuit I used was changed to a lower resistor ladder plus I included resistance at the chroma input as I got a very blured image with only a capacitor in line.

I also had to by pass the 10k resistor completely for the picture to display at all.


the Carlos version.
Many thanks to David Savery from his blog at  
http://www.r3uk.com/index.php/tech-tips/39-cool-projects/71-atari-2600-composite-video-mods



here are some of the results