Anyone have experience with Micomsoft XRGB-2 units?

[mawrick]

Anyone have any experience with these units?.

I had the impression these could hook up to a normal VGA monitor and then be able to use f.ex Amiga and C64 on it? (Only have the C64 here for testing purpose atm), but can't seem to get anything up on screen.

Should it be able to display the "Menu" on the monitor - or is there anything I'v misunderstood about these units.

In Europe, so 50Hz PAL, and using a 12V european PSU.

Any tips appreciated....

 

[disco]

I've been tempted to purchase an used XRGB-2 couple of months ago for my C64 but gave up after I couldn't find any example of this combination working.

Then I've purchased a cheap SVIDEO to VGA converter and it does display the picture but it's all messed up and the colors are missing. I think it "thinks" the signal is NTSC while it's actually PAL.

Later, I've watched some Bil Herd's (an enginer who worked in Commodore mid 80s) videos on YT and I think he was the one who said they deliberately messed up the C64 video output so people would buy Commodore monitors which were the only products available at the time that were able to properly display the messed up video signal.

What you could try is adding a 300 ohm resistor on the chroma line or use a C64-to-SVIDEO cable with this resistor in it. I've purchased mine from RetroComputerShack on the other bay and it already has the resistor in it. I'm not sure if it's against the rules to link the items from the other bay but it's the one with SVIDEO and 3 chinch connectors (yellow, white and red). I've ended up using it with my plasma TV. It sucks to have a C64 and couple of 1541-II drives on the bed but it was the only solution that worked for me.

Not sure about the menu on the XRGB-2, I think it should have one. Make sure you can get the menu displayed on the screen before ordering the cable.

And, as with all XRGBs, don't try to use the connector that looks like SCART without an adapter. It's Japanese standard and if you hook up EuroSCART on it, you could fry something.
https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/euroscart-versus-jp21

 

[Harrison]

As mentioned all X-RGB units use Japanese wired scart so don't plug a uk scart cable directly into it as they have power on a different pin. You can get an adapter for them.

I've not used the X-RGB 2. Only the later 3 and Mini.

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