Posted By
MMS
on 2019-11-13
15:03:26
 |  Re: rediscoverd +4
Well, I bought my cable from UK.
If you like to solder, and do it well, you can make your own.
This is about the 8pin version. Plus/4 only have 8 pin video out connectors.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2095/commodore-64-to-modern-tv
A useful info, that the 5 pin (more common) DIN connector ill also work, and will physically fit into the 8 pin "horseshoe" 8pin DIN.
https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/A/V_Jack
If you are not interested in the SVideo output (you do not have such an input on TV, or no Scart), then the Composite and audio you will get in the same way with a 5 DIN cable, and this DIN connector is much cheaper and much more easily available than the 8pin horseshoe version (very old TVs and Stereos used this 5pin DIN connector too).
My personal experience with my Plus/4, that the SVideo quality is not that great, and the composite quality of my plus/4 is better than my C64C's composite out.
So composite output is just fine, with less color bleeding than C64.
In details step-by-step description (pretty good)
https://ilesj.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/c64-av-cable-theory-and-practice/
(just for fun: my parents had this color TV when I was a kid, and made my very first pictures on this.
It had a same 5pin din connector on the front bottom area, so was very easy to connect to my C16.
http://users.atw.hu/patina/tv/ori556/viking.htm )
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