@@RetroComputerist I've worked with CGA text mode which has a similar layout and the extra work of treating chars, foreground, and background as their own "planes" has never really been that much of a benefit in my experience. Either there's no space savings, or the additional processing outweighs the savings. You might want to look into LZ4 - very easy to decode and also has RLE opportunities.
Is anybody knows anyone that can recap an AG-1980P please (not tgrantphoto) ? We have many hundreds of rare vhs tapes that I would like to archive on my youtube channel. With your video I now see what is the difference. Thank you!
TGrantphoto is who did this one. It has gotten increasingly expensive. I have not found an alternative provider of this service. Mine is still in good shape. Out of curiosity I got a quote to get it redone and it was almost $1k. I can say this, he does really good work. My guess is that he is catering to professional capture houses and I believe this is the VCR of choice for them.
@@RetroComputerist If I remember correctly, if I go with Tgrant if will cost me over 2000$ CDN with shipping to Canada and I think they don't recap everything. 500~1000$ USD + ship is what i'm ready to pay.
I was somehow initially thinking that it was an issue with the power switch, but it might be more of an issue with the monitor's power circuitry. (Edit: I came here from a recommendation on my RU-vid homepage, though I assume this was intended to be an unlisted video linked to from another post or chat on a different website)
No worries. I didn't hide it, but did post the link on VCF Forum. I really don't think it is the switch, that seems to click well. I think it is probably with power. I just don't know how/where to get started. I won't be able to find a schematic for sure.
How can I tell if mine SVHS Panasonic FS200 needs new caps? I only changed the caps in the chroma board and PSU, I guess the TBC board will need all new caps and all the boards, but just wanted to know signals of bad caps in the video playback
Sadly Matt, this is only available either via a Backbit or a custom made cartridge with an EPROM. I wouldn't have any idea how to do this in Bally Basic!
Way to go! Nice to see someone load these up on the real machine. I'm still surprised just how good the audio can sound from that chip when we deviate from the standard one voice beeper tones, and even after shying away from the three voice BASIC commands that still limit its true potential (no noise/vibrato). I was really happy to had put these together, I'm not sure where the title went on the Zelda track I believe the WAV files I shared should be showing that. But sounds great!
I have played VGM on my CMS chips in my Soundblaster 1.5. I have also done as many as 8 channels. Additionally, I used it today as a menu selection tool to use DOSMID for my brand new wavetable module for my ESS1868.
