Adding HDMI to a stock Macintosh Classic

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Adrian's Digital Basement

Adrian's Digital Basement

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@Breakfast_of_Champions
@Breakfast_of_Champions 3 жыл бұрын
When the video adapter has 1000x the computing power of the host computer
@Codeaholic1
@Codeaholic1 3 жыл бұрын
Given how much is done in software I wonder how much the arm cpu is utilized. Eg. Could a slower clocked core still handle this?
@stevethepocket
@stevethepocket 3 жыл бұрын
That's probably what it takes to have zero latency!
@ph1losopher
@ph1losopher 3 жыл бұрын
@@Codeaholic1 It's probably using dedicated counters/dividers and interrupts on the SoC to generate the timing rather than CPU instructions due to strict timing requirements of HDMI, so it probably could run on a slower CPU if it had the same counters.
@thomasbonse
@thomasbonse 3 жыл бұрын
@@stevethepocket Wouldn't that be Pi-Zero latency? 😉
@htfcirno2000
@htfcirno2000 3 жыл бұрын
The best way to look at it is, think of the video adapter as a magical black box. Doesnt matter it's compute capability, it's just there to facilitate video lol
@RetroHackShack
@RetroHackShack 3 жыл бұрын
Ha! I knew you would find some cool uses for the RGBtoHDMI, but I never expected HDMI from a Mac. Awesome job!
@Codeaholic1
@Codeaholic1 3 жыл бұрын
"I'm going to do less videos..." does way more. Haha. I started with a classic Mac. This old Mac stuff warms my heart. Kudos.
@spykillergames8402
@spykillergames8402 3 жыл бұрын
ya i dont think the "do less" worked out for him XD
@ClintTheriault
@ClintTheriault 3 жыл бұрын
These are videos that he's probably already filmed when he made that announcement. He's likely going to start to release less videos in a week or two.
@tonanornottonull7132
@tonanornottonull7132 3 жыл бұрын
Shhh don't make him realize he's doing more haha
@ironhead2008
@ironhead2008 3 жыл бұрын
This is gonna give life to a WHOLE lot of old Macs with busted screens.
@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862
@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 3 жыл бұрын
hm. would be amazing to make third party after market cases for them too then. instead of it being a mac classic it'll look like one of those small performas. or. replacing the crt with a LCD
@TheSkytherMod
@TheSkytherMod 3 жыл бұрын
@@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 Many options for that, with help I'd be willing to attempt something. Could make laser-cut, 3d-printed, extruded etcetera. Whilst I cannot produce the physical items I'm plenty capable of making the cad files
@tetsujin_144
@tetsujin_144 3 жыл бұрын
I think there's not nearly so many compact macs with busted screens as there are with battery-bombed logic boards...
@CDE.Hacker
@CDE.Hacker 3 жыл бұрын
I would love to see you put a LCD or LED in an old Macintosh. Imagine how many machines could have life again. 🤯
@AngeloTelesforo
@AngeloTelesforo 3 жыл бұрын
My first Classic for instance! I broke it’s crt neck… 😞
@NielsenWill
@NielsenWill 3 жыл бұрын
I've been looking around for information do do exactly this and boom, this video pops up
@darthbukowski6894
@darthbukowski6894 3 жыл бұрын
I was going to post the same thing.😂. That would be an awesome upgrade.
@Codeaholic1
@Codeaholic1 3 жыл бұрын
I'm curious how you're going to handle fitting the flat lcd panel in to the curved opening the crt went in to? Are you going to make the opening flat by removing plastic or add on an extension to take up the extra space between the opening and the panel?
@darthbukowski6894
@darthbukowski6894 3 жыл бұрын
@@Codeaholic1 , some case modding will need to be done for sure, maybe a 3D print something. Also depends if you could get a screen, maybe a laptop one, to be a form Factor that would fit the space.
@MotoRideswJohn
@MotoRideswJohn 3 жыл бұрын
There are not enough thumbs up in the world to express how freakin' cool that is!
@bsvenss2
@bsvenss2 3 жыл бұрын
Use a TD2TU converter.
@millomweb
@millomweb 3 жыл бұрын
HDMI is such a terrible thing ! NEVER again !!!!
@millomweb
@millomweb 3 жыл бұрын
@@blitzwing1 The connectors are rubbish and the connections affect the way the laptop works ! Turning the sound off and reconfiguring desktop layout !
@fredsretrocoding1421
@fredsretrocoding1421 3 жыл бұрын
This is awesome! I will finally be able to build myself a se30-based home cinema!
@benholroyd5221
@benholroyd5221 3 жыл бұрын
For extremely short black and white films?
@fredsretrocoding1421
@fredsretrocoding1421 3 жыл бұрын
​@@benholroyd5221 I am (slowly) completing the next version of macflim (www.macflim.com) with sound and smaller files! Unfortunately, the encoder doesn't really support movies longer than a few minutes, so I'll settle for 80s music videos :-)
@benholroyd5221
@benholroyd5221 3 жыл бұрын
@@fredsretrocoding1421 Oh wow. I thought you were being sarcastic, (well more sarcastic). Impressive that you managed to get it running in a window, I'd have thought you'd have to bypass the os entirely to stand a chance.
@fredsretrocoding1421
@fredsretrocoding1421 3 жыл бұрын
​@@benholroyd5221 I thought the same thing at the begining, but at the end, the windowed version is 4x less data. I align the window on a multiple of 8, so copybits doesn't have to rotate, and it goes well enough (I had other ideas, but they were not necessary). Won't work with the audio version, though, due to timing issues with sound and disk, so I 'll probably limit sound to full screen.
@benholroyd5221
@benholroyd5221 3 жыл бұрын
@@fredsretrocoding1421 surely don't need sound from multiple videos anyway. I am seriously impressed. I wouldn't even have tried this, and I have a habit of thinking " there must be a simpler way" and very quickly realising why X is like it is.
@Colaholiker
@Colaholiker 3 жыл бұрын
The whole adapter wiring is far more colorful than the image passing through it. :-D
@JLsoft
@JLsoft 3 жыл бұрын
Heh, I just realized when he pulled the external output up that I used to think, back when I first used an original Mac, that the rounded corners were actually missing pixels on the built-in tubes and not just the way the Mac's desktop is drawn as a design choice :/
@Spelter
@Spelter 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe they did it because of the corners and do it so it's not outside a few pixels ?
@maighstir3003
@maighstir3003 2 жыл бұрын
@@Spelter I'm fairly certain the corners are rounded because Jobs wanted them to be, not because of any technical reason (even indirectly). Look up the story about Steve Jobs and "roundrects", though that one specifically concerns QuickDraw I would be surprised if the rounded corners of the screen (which were on the Lisa as well) weren't born from a similar idea.
@1BitFeverDreams
@1BitFeverDreams 2 жыл бұрын
Inspired by you, I built my own 2 units of RGB2HDMI and successfully hooked it up to my own Mac Classic 1. I can intercept the HDMI signal to a cheapie USB stick capture device. I'm probably gonna set up a Mac plus in the same way, to reach compatibility with older games from 1984-1986. I set up a channel called '1Bit Fever Dreams' to show off my captured game sessions! Thanks Adrian!
@johnnyrokkit
@johnnyrokkit 2 жыл бұрын
I haven't heard anyone say SCSI for ages - so happy I found you! :)
@fragglet
@fragglet 3 жыл бұрын
That's awesome that you can do direct video capture from a Classic Mac now. All you need to add is direct audio capture of the Mac speaker :)
@mojoblues66
@mojoblues66 3 жыл бұрын
HDMI can carry audio, so there should be a way to get the speaker output into it.
@Spelter
@Spelter 3 жыл бұрын
In theory yes, but the converter board has to sent it because HDMI is a bit different with sending aound than 3.5mm audiojacks. Basically, its digital not analog.
@mrlox9576
@mrlox9576 Жыл бұрын
Quote: "the crt is very bright, very strong". Of course it is. Our friend Adrian has been at it. So it should be working like a dream. Hehe 😋 Thanks for the handy vid Adrian. 👍
@devttyUSB0
@devttyUSB0 3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, how cool to see a pixel perfect capture of that mac on my Thinkpad. Brings back memories man. That's a really cool project, that RGB-to-HDMI pi-thing.
@performa9523
@performa9523 3 жыл бұрын
Saw this recently on Noel's channel as a screen replacement, and immediately thought of old Macs. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought of that! Rock on sir!
@lobizonxp
@lobizonxp 3 жыл бұрын
I've never seen a device generate content quicker than this RGB2HDMI! That little guy must be freaking awesome! Great video, Adrian!
@kuillus
@kuillus 3 жыл бұрын
So cool! I wanted HDMI or VGA out on the compact old Macs for so long. Thank you for the video and settings! HDMI for all retro Macs one day :)
@Korn45678
@Korn45678 3 жыл бұрын
FYI - you got a shout out on Macbreak Weekly this week :). Keep up the awesome work, Adrian.
@carneeki
@carneeki 6 ай бұрын
I've been toying with a diy colour classic (or 575) inspired machine from the ground up, but video is something I've been a bit apprehensive about. This might be just the ticket. Thanks Adrian!
@Dukefazon
@Dukefazon 3 жыл бұрын
It's so nice that the retro computer YT channels are like a big ring of buddies, helping each other and promoting each other's content. I just recognized David's game in the background at 4:00. A viewer of The8Bit Guy is probably a viewer of one or more of LGR, TechMoan, Adrian's Digital Basement and it's not like they are taking view counts from each other, in fact, they watch each others' content too.
@GarthBeagle
@GarthBeagle 3 жыл бұрын
This is really cool! I love the way the pixels look - it reminds me of running the Apple 30" Cinema Display, which uses dual link DVI to get it's 2560x1600 resolution, on a device that only supports single link DVI, so that you get the single link timing in the display of 1280x800 (not scaled) which looks nicely chunky 🙂
@ctrlaltrees
@ctrlaltrees 3 жыл бұрын
2:33 Sometimes the only reason we need is - "because we can!" 🙂
@UpLateGeek
@UpLateGeek 3 жыл бұрын
If you're happy to have the RGB2HDMI external, you could sneak a ribbon cable out through the kensington lock slot. You'd probably want a more secure connector for the wires internally, otherwise it would be super easy to yank the cable loose. Not to mention it would be a lot easier than having to figure out which pin on the cable connects to which wire coming from the analogue board every time. I definitely found the integer scaling much better than the interpolate 4:3 soft option. You can really see the difference in the diagonal lines of the arrows on the scroll bars, it's definitely blurring the edges/corners of the pixels together. Anyway, great job! Always good to have another tool to show off these machines in your videos!
@josephnavarro3620
@josephnavarro3620 7 ай бұрын
Such a cool experiment. Thanks for sharing
@legin3753
@legin3753 3 жыл бұрын
Love the Irish rugby shirt 😎
@SidneyCritic
@SidneyCritic 3 жыл бұрын
Ahh, that's what that was. It kind-of looked familiar, but I couldn't remember.
@gabhanhome
@gabhanhome 3 жыл бұрын
The Lidl knock off Irish rugby jersey
@michelmostaert6071
@michelmostaert6071 Жыл бұрын
Great job ! Just discovered this video, and this channel. As I'm beginning to restore old Macs, I'm very interested in such possibilities like this one, or BulSCSI, RaSCSI,... Thanks for this !
@LeftoverBeefcake
@LeftoverBeefcake 3 жыл бұрын
I'm loving this modern era where anyone can create brand new hardware stuff for old machines, whether it's designing and fabricating a completely new motherboard, connecting up modern console controllers, and now displaying retro output over HDMI. Brilliant!
@75slaine
@75slaine 3 жыл бұрын
Yay, the return of the Lansdowne Road jersey 🇮🇪 . I love all the enhancements we’re getting for our old machines thanks to projects like this. Exciting stuff
@EdwinSteiner
@EdwinSteiner 3 жыл бұрын
Seeing the old Mac desktop full-screen in high quality is something special, even to me, who was never a Macintosh user. I hope you will use this converter on many retro systems in the future!
@RacerX-
@RacerX- 3 жыл бұрын
How totally cool that is. Never even thought you could do this. Love it!
@Petertronic
@Petertronic 3 жыл бұрын
If it can handle that pixel level checkerboard ok, it can do anything. Very neat!
@RetroWK
@RetroWK 3 жыл бұрын
No reason to do this sounds perfectly fine to me!
@trogs2022
@trogs2022 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool! That RGB2HDMI project just keeps being more awesome. I remember looking into getting the video out of a mac classic I spent far too long on restoring years and years ago and gave up due to nothing being able to process the signal properly. I did learn a ton about macs, scsi, disk imaging and so on during that project though so it was good fun :) Another project you might be interested in if you haven't seen it already is the USB Wombat from BMOW, where you can use a modern USB keyboard/mouse on a classic ADB machine, or the other way around!
@IEnjoyCreatingVideos
@IEnjoyCreatingVideos 3 жыл бұрын
Good job Adrian! Thanks for sharing the video with us!💖👌👍😎JP
@SireSquish
@SireSquish Жыл бұрын
Much love for good ol' Crystal Quest. That's one of the games I showed to my PC using mate to showcase good mac games. He LoL'd and went back to Doom.
@desiv1170
@desiv1170 3 жыл бұрын
"Why would you want to do this?" ... is something no one in the Retro world should ever ask. ;-) Great vid!! Also, too bad the Pi in the Classic project didn't work. That would have been fun too. ;-)
@adriansdigitalbasement
@adriansdigitalbasement 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah the reverse would be amazing -- another enthusiast was working on it too but we just ran into issues with the DPI limitations on the Pi. Not sure if it's a software or hardware issue.
@thebyteattic
@thebyteattic 3 жыл бұрын
How can 7 people NOT like this? I mean, really?
@adriansdigitalbasement
@adriansdigitalbasement 3 жыл бұрын
Heh, a few people have posted angry(ish) comments :-)
@VenomStryker
@VenomStryker 3 жыл бұрын
@@adriansdigitalbasement Not sure why anyone would be angry...lol. Always a few bad apples I suppose.
@millomweb
@millomweb 3 жыл бұрын
Possibly cos HDMI is so terrible !
@omarhammoud7223
@omarhammoud7223 3 жыл бұрын
@@adriansdigitalbasement angry about what ??? this is was fantastic !!!
@lauram5905
@lauram5905 3 жыл бұрын
If my Mac Classic hadn't *literally melted* from a battery explosion in a humid basement 8 years ago I'd be all over this, it's so cool to be able to give old priceless experiences a new lease of life with something as simple and as bog standard now as a Pi
@kittyztigerz
@kittyztigerz 3 жыл бұрын
now that is usefully inform awesome jobs Adrian
@StephenArsenault
@StephenArsenault 3 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to a review of the BlueSCSI :)
@adriansdigitalbasement
@adriansdigitalbasement 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I have one -- definitely need to do video capture when I do.
@wazhoola14
@wazhoola14 3 жыл бұрын
Stephen's comment and Adrian's answer are both showing as being posted 2 weeks ago!
@StephenArsenault
@StephenArsenault 3 жыл бұрын
@@wazhoola14 glitch in the matrix!
@stephanemignot100
@stephanemignot100 3 жыл бұрын
@@wazhoola14 Patreon's privileges I guess!
@seanmchughnt
@seanmchughnt 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Adrian. Another great episode.
@jengelenm
@jengelenm 3 жыл бұрын
OMH i just remember playing that game with my nephew 30 years ago!!!! (I was 12 or little over). Thanks to this video! Amazing flashback, from the very depths of my brain
@roberthedin909
@roberthedin909 11 ай бұрын
This works awesome, pixel perfect on a little HDMI monitor that I can hang in front of the CTR monitor.
@tux1968
@tux1968 3 жыл бұрын
This is one of your most fun videos ever. Really great. Sounds like you really enjoyed it too, you sounded like a giddy schoolgirl ;-)
@obijuan232
@obijuan232 3 жыл бұрын
Adrian, you rock! As always keep up the good work.
@tlaloclopez-watermann3499
@tlaloclopez-watermann3499 3 жыл бұрын
Congrats on being Andy’s week pick on MacBreak Weekly!
@applesushi
@applesushi 3 жыл бұрын
Great video as always. Crystal Quest really takes me back. I first played this in 1990 on what I think was a Macintosh SE.
@Natures_Intentions
@Natures_Intentions 3 жыл бұрын
It's so awesome that people are making hdmi mods for all of these vintage computers and game consoles alike
@yopachi
@yopachi 3 жыл бұрын
Aw man, thought you were gonna show off Colony next! This project is sooo cool!!
@jrrscttktts
@jrrscttktts 3 жыл бұрын
Thumbs way up! I’ve been trying to get my old dual 800k floppy SE to come back life ( original owner - me). Haven’t got it to boot yet, but it’s great to know that I can get a video signal out of it if my analog board is dead!
@tankgrrl
@tankgrrl 3 жыл бұрын
This will be fabulous for people like RMC with his museum, he could add this to older machines so that whatever someone is playing on a machine in the museum could also be show on a big screen. PS - If you'd like one of the c0pperdragon boards for Amiga, I've built a handful and would be happy to send you one.
@jaws10278
@jaws10278 Жыл бұрын
Wow! If you could find a 9” square LCD, you could replace the CRT. This is awesome. Ill be saving this video!!!
@StevenStaton
@StevenStaton 3 жыл бұрын
This looks like the answer to the question “How do I screen capture my NeXT Cube and NeXTStation color displays?” Awesome work, Adrian!
@cgmagik9837
@cgmagik9837 Жыл бұрын
Wow! Amazing. Thank you!
@ultrametric9317
@ultrametric9317 3 жыл бұрын
Good job man! this was super cool!!!
@Rienck
@Rienck 3 жыл бұрын
This is straightaway awesome!!! ❤️❤️❤️
@circuithijacker
@circuithijacker 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent work! Turns out your previous failure was really just prep work for this success!
@ShamblerDK
@ShamblerDK Жыл бұрын
I got myself an Indivision Mk3 for my Amiga 1200, which gives it an HDMI-port, and the picture is also pixel perfect 🙂
@enzito_sdf6978
@enzito_sdf6978 3 жыл бұрын
honestly this is awesome, like you could build a custom psu/analog board and build a completely lcd version of this. great for preserving these old machines.
@Spelter
@Spelter 3 жыл бұрын
True, but there would be the problem with getting into the menu, he would need to either capture keyboard commands somehow or drill holes for new buttons and solder then onto the board. But yes, it would be possible, but some would say it's not a real old machine
@enzito_sdf6978
@enzito_sdf6978 3 жыл бұрын
@@Spelter ofc yeah, but if the lcd software is hardwired to work in a certain way there shouldn't be any issue. the thing with these old pcs is that eventually they're all gonna die, so i think it's great that we can preserve the experience of using this hardware as closely as possible to the original. emulators already do wonders, but with fpgas and the m68k family still being relevant, i see a future hardware clones at the very least possible.
@Berend70
@Berend70 3 жыл бұрын
This is of course wonderful! I hope someday there will be a rgbi (c128) to hdmi with a pi-zero that would be really nice :-)
@adriansdigitalbasement
@adriansdigitalbasement 3 жыл бұрын
The RGB2HDMI already fully supports the C128 digital output -- just plug it in and set it to CGA and you're all set. Unfortunately the C128 analog video (for 40 col mode) isn't supported at this time.
@MariosTsiakiris
@MariosTsiakiris 3 жыл бұрын
@@adriansdigitalbasement I was going to ask this too, thanx Adrian!
@marciomaiajr
@marciomaiajr 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, Adrian!
@CambsNews
@CambsNews Жыл бұрын
you’re a very brave man reaching round the back with a naked CRT lol
@MonochromeWench
@MonochromeWench 3 жыл бұрын
While videos filled with troubleshooting when countless things go wrong are interesting it is nice to have the occasional video where things just work
@GreenAppelPie
@GreenAppelPie 3 жыл бұрын
There was really something fascinating about those black and white monochrome high resolution displays back in the day. And the Apple ping. I’d literally go from store to store playing around with these as a kid for entertainment.
@cappaculla
@cappaculla 3 жыл бұрын
Hey Adrian, digging the Shirt !!!
@borayurt66
@borayurt66 3 жыл бұрын
It would be great if you can get one of these RGB to HDMI Raspi hats as a blank PCB and build it from scratch. As I understand, it self programs the CPLD when you assemble the hat yourself and power up for the first time. This is a great project and being totally open source, it is a huge contribution the the retro community. It really deserves to have an in depth build + review video from all of the best retro channels, and none that I follow has done it yet. IMHO, you should be the one to do it. I will be building a "Superfo" Harlequin 128 v4A board from scratch very soon. It is the last version of the "Harlequin" series ZX Spectrum 128K clones which uses all off-the-shelf 74HC logic IC's to re-create the long time obsolete custom ULA. The board natively outputs RGB and I am planning to use this RGB to HDMI project with it. I know I would be grateful if I saw a build video before I attempt to build mine, I am sure there will be tons of other retro-heads like me who would appreciate such a video. There is some fine pitch SMD soldering involved but with correct flux and iron tip, it is really much easier than one anticipates. Please do this. :-)
@christhomas5804
@christhomas5804 Жыл бұрын
Great job!👍 Would be cool to get this as a kind of "interplugable" device - the hole for the Lock should be big enough to get the HDMI-cable out. If anyone should offer this on day, please let me know.
@StevenSmyth
@StevenSmyth 3 жыл бұрын
I did a test capture from my LCIII using minimum System 7.5 about a year ago. I used a DB15 to VGA adapter out to a powered VGA splitter from DTech. One side goes out to my flat panel VGA monitor (so I can see the native output) the other side goes to a Star Tech VGA2HDMI box. It’s like a headless VGA monitor and supports a lot of resolutions. The HDMI of that goes to an El Gato game capture HD The old one, I don’t need to capture old Mac video at 60fps. The El Gato goes into my MacBook Air. The video is on my channel with links to the tools in the doodley-doo. Not quite as cool as this but I can’t solder. My setup is quite similar to what LGR uses except for the splitter. And he has (at least he did) an AverMedia capture system. Nice job.
@unmensch178
@unmensch178 3 жыл бұрын
I simply adore, how greatly technologies advanced over 30 years or so, and the fact, that raspberry pi convertor has over 500 times more ram, than the macintosh
@NaokisRC
@NaokisRC 3 жыл бұрын
I used a custom wire adaptor and resistors to get a "VGA" signal out of the mac classic i had to make sure the motherboard was outputting video to the CRT. Mind you this only worked because the Eizo multi scan monitor I have supports 24KHz even tho the mac classic is 22.5khz, it threw a warning but still displayed it enough to verify the mac was working
@zxrenew5642
@zxrenew5642 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool indeed Sir!
@chadsmith8476
@chadsmith8476 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool! Perhaps I will do this on my classic mac.
@zbradbell
@zbradbell 3 жыл бұрын
I went to a very early iphone programming talk by apple, and the way they projected the iphone screen at that time was just by putting it under a document camera. wouldn't be surprised if the old Macintosh keynote just had a regular video camera pointed at the screen.
@matthewbriggs9137
@matthewbriggs9137 3 жыл бұрын
You could theoretically gut the CRT and put an LCD display in place. This would be a worthy experiment if the CRT was kaput on a Classic Mac.
@jubalbiggs4559
@jubalbiggs4559 Жыл бұрын
If I'm not mistaken, many of the old compact Mac motherboards were actually capable of sending color. I don't know about the Classic, but the Classic II motherboard was basically an LC II (which was color) and I think the SE /30 motherboard supported color as well, even though the CRT was black and white.
@briangoldberg4439
@briangoldberg4439 3 жыл бұрын
The Pi 4 can handle the specific refresh rate you would need. The limitations you are talking about are only a problem on the Pi 3.
@stefanweber8935
@stefanweber8935 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool. Would love to see a video on running a classic Mac mainboard without the analog board, just using the RGB2HDMI and an ATX PSU. That should be a nice setup for testing MBs. I hope somebody will produce and sell a bigger batch of these....
@devicemodder
@devicemodder 2 жыл бұрын
The commodore PET looks to use the same type of video interface as well... meaning that this should work with that computer also
@DavidWonn
@DavidWonn 3 жыл бұрын
1:30 Goodwill just couldn’t make up its mind on the price…
@mariorossi1633
@mariorossi1633 3 жыл бұрын
Insanely awesome!
@Fifury161
@Fifury161 3 жыл бұрын
2:25 - I've mentioned before - external displays did exist for this form factor Mac - it connected via the SCSI port, expensive, but it worked! (Oh almost forgot the Mac SE 30 had a a few riser cards upgrades - there was a knockout on the back for the video output port (It was normally used for ethernet ports), I still have my Radius card & monitor!)
@TheRenegade...
@TheRenegade... 3 ай бұрын
Wonder if you can get a SCSI to HDMI adapter to work then
@Echoes_AJ
@Echoes_AJ 3 жыл бұрын
I've owned a Mac Plus and an SE for several years. Their resolution was 512 x 342. I've never seen a classic Mac going to 384. My friend's SE/30 also was 512 x 342. Every Mac with a 9" CRT was 512 x 342. Unless I'm mistaken, the Color Classic was the first to do 512 x 384.
@kaitlyn__L
@kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын
Indeed, the original Mac resolution is not actually 4:3, and it was too stretched vertically after he put it to interpolated (but he called it correct because he always adjusts his CRTs to fit 4:3). How it first looked is pixel accurate.
@joeventura1
@joeventura1 2 жыл бұрын
Cool as hell!
@RetroTheory
@RetroTheory 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting , Still interested in getting it working the other way.
@RetroTheory
@RetroTheory 3 жыл бұрын
@@kuangmark Sorry, the PI over DPI to the CRT. Maybe next version of the Pi will have better clock control.
@lilmul123
@lilmul123 3 жыл бұрын
The cross hatch pattern at boot is fascinating!
@thedungeondelver
@thedungeondelver 3 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing ads back in the day for gadgets that would let you connect an external monitor to the classic (128k) Macintosh that came out almost immediately after the system came out. It's great to see the concept go from unobtanium, to available again.
@adriansdigitalbasement
@adriansdigitalbasement 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting! I wonder what kinds of monitors it worked with since the Mac video timing isn't following any normal standard (like NTSC, PAL, etc.) I watched some Apple keynotes where they had Mac video output on a large projected screen -- and I wondered how they made that possible.
@thedungeondelver
@thedungeondelver 3 жыл бұрын
@@adriansdigitalbasement As I recall they were for CGA monitors, I will do some research and see what I can find. I did find this link at a forum where back in 2014 people were discussing the feasibility of it, and apparently there was a repair book for classic macintoshes that explained a bit how the video output worked, and the possibility of using a TTL monitor. I'll just put the link here: 68kmla.org/forums/topic/23661-external-compact-mac-crt/?do=findComment&comment=246156
@darkwinter6028
@darkwinter6028 3 жыл бұрын
I believe that the way that they got early Mac video was a combination of special hardware in the Mac to get it’s video signal out of the case; and then a very large (5 to 10 unit 19” rack mount, depending on exactly when built and what model it was) bit of very expensive hardware called a ‘scan converter’. You could configure them to convert from just about anything to anything; and they also handled the interlaced video flicker issue.
@weldum1
@weldum1 2 жыл бұрын
amazing, i have a macintosh 512k with a broken display, i will try this, as i think the video signals are the same
@uliwitness
@uliwitness 3 жыл бұрын
Can you elaborate what you meant about the pixel aspect ratio not being 1x1? All Macs had square pixels. The 512x342 is the B/W screen pixel dimensions, 512x384 was for the Color Classic's 10" screen and the 12" color display (vs. the 640x480 13" screen). Those screens were just about the size of two menu bars taller, meaning you could fit more stuff on them.
@fred_derf
@fred_derf 2 жыл бұрын
I remember being at the local Apple dealer when the Mac came out (I was there for the Lisa debut as well) and being very excited when I measured things and figured out that it was using square pixels (the Lisa had rectangular pixels). P.S. The Mac's screen was has a wider aspect ratio than a standard 4:3 display -- Mac's were widescreen before wide-screen was a thing.
@uliwitness
@uliwitness 2 жыл бұрын
@@fred_derf Ah yes, the color displays (512x384 and 640x480) were standard TV 4:3, but that obviously makes 512x342 a bit shorter than 4:3. Though none of these are 1:1 (that would be square).
@PentaxEnthusiast
@PentaxEnthusiast 3 жыл бұрын
Having the ability to capture it would be cool! I finally got my hands on a C64, and would love to be able to actually stream some classic games for friends to watch.
@Spelter
@Spelter 3 жыл бұрын
You could use multiple converters, like video into an usb video converter. The sound could be a problem, but it would be a cool thing when you solve that. Never saw an external sound device for the commodore.
@kjamison5951
@kjamison5951 Жыл бұрын
This is very cool. I’d like to see an SE/30 capture in color. iIRC, the SE/30 was capable of RGB output to a color monitor. It might need something extra, I believe there was an expansion board that plugged into the slot on the logic board with a VGA socket.
@philevans4021
@philevans4021 3 жыл бұрын
23:51 is it just me or is that the exact sound at the beginning of the Streets Of Laredo VR game in Red Dwarf?
@patrickdeunhouwer5926
@patrickdeunhouwer5926 3 жыл бұрын
WP on position 1 good choice
@markmaz56
@markmaz56 7 ай бұрын
I used to work on a Mac Plus with an external Radius full-page display in 1986!
@valiant1968
@valiant1968 3 жыл бұрын
The extra pixel you're seeing along the right hand side of the cursor, is just part of what happens when the desktop background is 'grey' on those monochrome macs - the checkerboard effect. If the background is black, it isn't as obvious.
@darkwinter6028
@darkwinter6028 3 жыл бұрын
I distinctly remember playing Crystal Quest on a Mac II with a 13” Apple Trinitron monitor. That and Solarian II were some of my favorite general games of the era (the others would be all flight simulators).
@JJzzki
@JJzzki Ай бұрын
Thank you so much
@BlueJayBonsai
@BlueJayBonsai 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was really amazing… thanks!
@aleksandrbmelnikov
@aleksandrbmelnikov Жыл бұрын
I like the idea of replacing dangerous CRTs with nice friendly 5v LCD screens. Another nasty bugger, was 8 inch floppy drive. Those ran on mains voltage. All electronics from back then remind me of movies, where some lady spills milk and gets electrocuted by a blender.
@HalianTheProtogen
@HalianTheProtogen 3 жыл бұрын
12:25 Ace pride :D
@maidado
@maidado 3 жыл бұрын
yess!
@HalianTheProtogen
@HalianTheProtogen 3 жыл бұрын
@@maidado
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