Commodore 128, 80 column mode displayed on modern monitors
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:18 am
Greetings and salutations.
I've recently re-obtained a Commodore 128. Oddly, it was the same one that I had in my youth. The gentleman I sold it to still had it, and it sold it back to me at the same price I sold it to him. However, the monitor was broken, and I have no way to display the 80 column mode. I have been looking around online, and I know it's an RGBI signal that the 128 outputs, but I'm having a hell of a time finding a device to convert that signal for a VGA input. I did find this: https://www.serdashop.com/MCE2VGA - but I don't know if that will be sufficient for the 128, because quite frankly, I'm not very verse when it comes to technical specifications, and the website doesn't mention the Commodore 128 at all.
Can anyone help me out here, either about this device, or another that I am unaware of?
Thanks.
I've recently re-obtained a Commodore 128. Oddly, it was the same one that I had in my youth. The gentleman I sold it to still had it, and it sold it back to me at the same price I sold it to him. However, the monitor was broken, and I have no way to display the 80 column mode. I have been looking around online, and I know it's an RGBI signal that the 128 outputs, but I'm having a hell of a time finding a device to convert that signal for a VGA input. I did find this: https://www.serdashop.com/MCE2VGA - but I don't know if that will be sufficient for the 128, because quite frankly, I'm not very verse when it comes to technical specifications, and the website doesn't mention the Commodore 128 at all.
Can anyone help me out here, either about this device, or another that I am unaware of?
Thanks.