Ideas for using the CPCs in the PAL-M country...

[SyX]

HI!

The smuggling operation to Brazil worked great and as you can see in the pictures the "goods" (1x464, 2x6128, 1x6128+, 1xAtari 800XL, 1xZX +2A and a lot of expansions... and in my next visit i will bring my PCW and the Dragon, because there was not enough space in the baggage xDDD) are in good state 
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Of course, i was stopped by customs, but when i opened the suitcase, the official only touch the zx spectrum, saw a lot of cables and let me go (not enough material for a bomb xDDD)... Thanks God!!!, he didn't see the three (light) guns or i will stay in prison yet 

And now to the important thing, the electricity is not a problem, in Fortaleza (a city in the north-east) we get 240v/60Hz and the CPCs work perfectly here.

My bigger problem is that this amazing country use PAL-M, this "thing" is NTSC except the colour carrier is encoded in PAL... the result: my poor CPCs and the XL are in a sad B&W.

I'm using a converter from scart to video composite, too. Because of course, there is not TVs with scart here.

I suppose that my best options are a converter to VGA or preferably HDMI, looks more future proof those days and those plasma tvs support 50Hz (but i suppose that i need to forget about CRTC smooth horizontal scrollers for now ).

What do you think? Any good ideas for recover the colours in my CPCs? Which solutions are you using for seeing your CPCs in exotic non-PAL countries?

[steve]

CPCs were sold with monitors to prevent any diffculties like this

[Bryce]

RGB to S-Video and then an S-Video to VGA and use a standard 4:3 PC monitor.

Bryce.

[SyX]

Thanks Bryce! It's one option, jejeje

But Steve, i haven't used a CPC monitor since i was a child and i would prefer not use one

[TFM]

CPCs were sold with monitors to prevent any diffculties like this

That of course would give the best picture (for games, demos. Not coding maybe). But to transport a monitor in a plane is always nearly impossible. They freak out.


So... SyX, can you get a monitor with scart from somewhere which runs in Brazil? IMHO all this converters take a lot of quality away sadly.

[TotO]

Why you don't said me that yesterday... I have sent you a packet this morning and was able to add an RGB to VGA or RGB to HDMI converter.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu !!!

[SyX]

Why you don't said me that yesterday... I have sent you a packet this morning and was able to add an RGB to VGA or RGB to HDMI converter.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu !!!

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH xDDDDDD