Hello from Happy Hacking BB

[Eric Anderson]

Hey Eric,
For composite, I just bought an old LCD TV with Composite In. I think you can still buy them new if needed and I am yet to find a TV that doesn't work with the Composite out from the 'bee.

As for CGA, (Deep Breath) There are many, many options.
Turnkey, you can just buy an adapter from Ewan: https://microbeetechnology.com.au/vga-vi...verter.htm
You could "roll your own" by getting a CGA to VGA adapter like this one (https://github.com/necroware/mce-adapter works really well) and then either plug it into a 15KHz compatible monitor (http://15khz.wikidot.com/ Which is what I have done) or plug that into an upscaler.
As for upscalers, there are a lot of options out there. Personally I have a commercial upscaler for most of my stuff that I trashpicked from a refurb, but I also have a GBSControl (https://github.com/ramapcsx2/gbs-control) which takes a cheap chinese scaler board, sticks a spike in it's brain and parasitically replaces it with a new brain. The results are astounding, but it's a bit fiddly to build :-D

I, er, have a lot of different systems to support, so I have a lot of different solutions.

Hope some of this helps!

John

<<<BANG>>>


I just plugged in my chook-in-a-book to the Premium Microbee to see if it would boot (listening for the pecking sounds from the disk drive).  It sounded like it booted ok, even though I couldn't see anything without a monitor.  Then about 2 minutes into testing disks the chook-in-a-book exploded with white smoke and an all might BANG.  I think the power supply in the chook-in-a-book just blew a capacitor!

If I am lucky it wont have nuked the drive and the Microbee with it.

Guess I will be needing more than a CGA to HDMI converter now.  Anyone still repair the old chook-in-a-book drives?

BTW, thank you for the CGA info. 

So that is a keyboard upgrade for the dead keys, a CGA-to-HDMI converter, a Premium Plus upgrade, and a disk drive repair

Did anyone mention software to read microbee disks on a PC?  Maybe the emulator is the way to see my old software again.

EDIT: Just tested the duel drive and it booked the Bee ok and even make it beep as it booted into my basic menu one of of my games disks. So it's a monitor or a URB 3.5 drive for my laptop to run an emulator?