I still find it cool that 30 year old Computer equipment actually had S-Video output capability, but without the S-Video connector.
Commodore 64’s have Chroma/Luma and Audio outputs from the video port. They’re in RCA connector format, so I had to come up with an adapter. I looked up on the internet about the cables being sold, etc and found out that you needed a 300 ohm resistor inline to get clarity in the signal, because the Commodore 64’s output is a bit ‘hot’.
Well, I got a resistor and tried it and found I wasn’t getting any color. Tried a smaller ohm resistor and it began to show promise. I decided that a variable resistor would be a better solution in case each machine I connected to had different output levels. I spent some time and built my adapter case at Kwartzlab.
Voila! Observe the photo graphs!
The adapter:
Output without resistance applied:
Output with resistance applied:
My Commodore 64 on a 52″ LCD TV in the living room:
