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Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X
About four years ago (?!) I wrote a blog post called The Great Composite Comparison, where I compared a number of methods for upscaling composite video. At t...
The RetroTINK-2X MINI and the Micomsoft Framemeister, still excellent standards in retrogaming upscalers, suffer from a problem: they couldn’t work with the “color killer” circuit in the Apple ][. Now, on systems that have S-Video or component options (the Micomsoft Framemeister, but not the RetroTINK2X-MINI), you can plug the Apple ][ into the luma to get a nice clean monochrome text mode. Finally, it is also worth noting that the 5X (assuming you use an RCA cable) uses the same input for composite video and for luma, so switching between them is just a menu option away, and as usual, is very crisp.
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