Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!jumbo!ehs
From: ehs@jumbo.dec.com (Ed Satterthwaite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Atari 800 Monitor Connection
Message-ID: <14220@jumbo.dec.com>
Date: 24 Nov 89 18:32:57 GMT
References: <1636@ultb.UUCP>
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Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto
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In article <1636@ultb.UUCP>, clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) writes:
> In article <29958@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> viking@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom) writes:
> >I just bought an old Atari 800 on a lark and I wanted to hook it up to
> >my Commodore monitor.  There is a five-pin DIN connector on the side,
...
> >
> Looking at the port itself, you will see:
> 
>                        U
>                    3       1 
>                 
>                   5          4
> 
>                        2
> 
> Pin 1: Composite Luminance (not connected)
> Pin 2: Ground
> Pin 3: Audio Out
> Pin 4: Compoite video
> Pin 5: Composite Chroma (nc)
> ...

Since the original poster has a Commodore monitor, there's a good chance
that the luminance and chroma outputs can be used.  On my 1702, I
connected the audio, luminance, and chroma to the corresponding RCA
jacks on the back of the monitor (ground to all the shields) and ignored
the composite video.  The picture is sharper, especially with things like
80-column terminal emulators, and the colors seem better too.

Ed Satterthwaite
ehs@src.dec.COM  /  {...}!decwrl!ehs