A600 HDMI - The BEST AND EASY Way! - Amiga 600 running on Modern TVs and Monitors [RGB2HDMI Review]

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Want a PIXEL PERFECT HDMI output solution? THIS is what you need!
No need to solder- It's pretty much like Lego. Push in the parts, put the files on the MicroSD- And you're off!
In this video review/ guide, we use the rgb2hdmi together with the Pi0 (with wifi and headers), a 32GB Sandisk microsd- and the Linkin Perk (yes, seriously) Mini HDMI to HDMI cable.
The Raspberry Pi0 in this video was bought from Yahoo Auctions, but can easily be obtained from ebay. Get one with headers if you don't wish to do any soldering.
As the Pi0 is quite rare, the Pi0 2 may be easier to source. It has recently become compatible with RGB2HDMI (Late 2021)
Software Links:
IanSB (Newest RGB2HDMI software that we used): github.com/IanSB/RGBtoHDMI/re...
Hoglet67 (original RGB2HDMI software for A600) : github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
C0pperdragon (OG RGB2HDMI): github.com/c0pperdragon/Amiga...
Hardware (also Affiliate) Links:
A600 RGB2HDMI: www.retro32.com/product/amiga...
PiZero 2: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_ACGTft
Sandisk 32GB MicroSD: amzn.to/38r991Z
LINKINPERK Mini HDMI to HDMI: amzn.to/3PGmSma
Want to buy an A500 Mini?
A500mini: amzn.to/3upNiAh
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Timestamps
@0:00- Intro
@0:31- Introducing the RGB2HDMI
@0:51- Hands on the RGB2HDMI
@1:20- Installation
@4:06- RGB2HDMI Menu / Calibration
@4:48- Game Testing
@6:40- Demo Testing
@7:18- Conclusion / Thanks
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Пікірлер: 32

@treguard1982 11 ай бұрын

Sounds like Picard approves. Amazing that you got him in for a voice recording - hope you gave him plenty of cups of tea!

@TeamPandory 11 ай бұрын

He definitely approves... And thankfully brings a box of PGtips for me every now and then. .... As he finishes all of the good stuff 😲

@AlistairBrugsch 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@10MARC 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@marianoaragonrivas 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

... ! No way! Were you waiting for a solution ?

@pixie7643 2 жыл бұрын

One more extremely underrated channel found! gotta find them all! xD

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind message! We actually don't know what we're doing :-)

@pixie7643 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@srvuk 2 жыл бұрын

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' :-)

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SpectrumZ_90 2 жыл бұрын

seeing all this old tech puts in to perspective how fer we've come

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@TheStuffMade 2 жыл бұрын

Neat, but I wonder if the cost isn't going to be almost the same as something like the Open Source Scan Converter.

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@omma911 2 жыл бұрын

This looks great! It even has the infamous NTSC black bottom bar. Are there any issues with interlace coding hacks in certain demos?

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

Not that I know of. Can you throw out some examples and I can test.

@omma911 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@kcolbinyar 3 ай бұрын

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).

@TeamPandory 3 ай бұрын

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 ^-^

@fordprefect_amiga Ай бұрын

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.

@TeamPandory Ай бұрын

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

@fordprefect_amiga Ай бұрын

@@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

@eijentwun5509 6 ай бұрын

WHat game is that at the end credits of that purple Blob? is it Globdule? is it ECS or AGA?

@TeamPandory 6 ай бұрын

I think it's the ecs version.

@Rick_Todd 2 жыл бұрын

Please tell them to make one for Commodore 64. Thank You.

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

From the same dev, actually! - Check this! github.com/c0pperdragon/C64-Video-Enhancement

@mikedavidson1142 2 жыл бұрын

that joystick looks cool what is it and were can i get one

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mikedavidson1142 2 жыл бұрын

@@TeamPandory thank you i'll have to have a look

@TeamPandory 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikedavidson1142 there are similar left hand sticks. Search also for qj joystick