[BBC-Micro] Monitors

[francis at devrx.org]

>Hi all,
>
>What are you guys using for BBC monitors these days?

I'm using an Acorn AKF18 (14" multisync monitor supplied with some 32-bit Acorns), and a cable that I made with resistors on the R,G, and B lines and with the BBC's Csync output wired to Hsync on the monitor (possibly with a resistor, I can't remember).

I'm sure the AKF18 won't last forever, so what I'd ideally like is a scan-converter type piece of hardware that upscaled to 1280x1024.  Because 1280x1024 is a multiple of 640x256 and the other beeb resolutions there'd be no blurring when displaying this on a 1280x1024 LCD (and it'd also look nice on CRTs).  Unfortunately I'm not really a hardware person so I have no idea how difficult it would be to make such a piece of hardware.

>I'm looking to hook it up to a 1084s. My choices are to clip the RGB and 
>feed the analogue input, or feed the digital input. But I still have to 
>generate H/V sync from the sync output of the BBC... anyone already doing 
>this out of interest?

I think that you can get seperate H and V sync signals from the pins of one of the chips inside a BBC, but as others have mentioned feeding a 1084s with Csync you won't need them.

Regards,

Francis