Recreating a vintage TTL to composite video interface #VintageComputing @abzman2000
Evan’s Techie Blog discusses making a small video circuit for taking sync and video signals and generating a composite video signal out, in this case for a vintage Northstar Advantage computer.
How to do this is mined from old original schematics.
This is my generic polarity selectable TTL logic to composite video generator. I based the circuit off the one in the ZRT-80 but I made each input individually polarity selectable like the advantage has on its outputs. That makes this design fairly generic and able to be used on a variety of computers to replace monitors that may have failed or video outputs that did not fir the composite video voltage levels. You could even hook this up to a raspberry pi pico or an FPGA and use it to generate a good solid composite signal as long as your video timings were correct.
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