{"id":3,"date":"2010-09-23T18:23:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2018-01-19T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:11:50","slug":"super-video-modding-the-atari-130xe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/23\/super-video-modding-the-atari-130xe\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Video Modding the Atari 130XE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atari 8-bit computer line had some notorious issues with video output.  Colors are muddy and dull thanks to poor design on the video circuit.  Some years ago I took my 130xe and applied the Super Video mod to try to improve the clarity and color depth.  At the same time I built an S-Video interface cable to take full advantage of the machine&#8217;s output.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed instructions for the mod are here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcomputers.it\/parts\/atari\/130xe\/docs\/sv130-1.html\">http:\/\/www.oldcomputers.it\/parts\/atari\/130xe\/docs\/sv130-1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a great mod, the parts are cheap and working on the 1980s board was nice.  I didn&#8217;t even own my solder station at the time and did all the work with a blunt Radio Shack iron, but it still all worked out just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atari 8-bit computer line had some notorious issues with video output. Colors are muddy and dull thanks to poor design on the video circuit. Some years ago I took my 130xe and applied the Super Video mod to try to improve the clarity and color depth. At the same time I built an S-Video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6,7,5],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-atari","tag-modding","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}