For all Amiga versions that have a socketed DIP Denise chip and the required physical space inside, a rather small adapter board can be used to extract the digital video signal (12 bit) to a 40-pin connector compatible with the Raspberry Pi Zero. This can then be used with the RGBtoHDMI software to produce a perfect HDMI picture with very low latency (a few milliseconds at most).
This is a special designed reversed version of RGB2HDMI adapter to avoid interference with turbo cards. Please see our photos to check how exaclty everything need to be connected.
Quick installation (no soldering required at all):
- remove Denise chip from your Amiga
- put Denise chip into the RGB2HDMI adapter
- put RGB2HDMI together with Denise chip into Denise socket on your Amiga 500 motherboard
- connect button on the cable into RGB2HDMI adapter (included)
- put Raspberry Pi Zero into RGB2HDMI adapter (not included)
- put preloaded micro SD card into Raspberry Pi Zero micro SD slot (not included)
- connect mini HDMI cable (not included)
Please make sure that bottom side of HDMI connector from Raspberry Pi Zero does not physically touch PINs from Denise chip (please see our last photo). Just in case you can put some piece of insulation tape on the bottom side of HDMI connector from Raspberry Pi Zero.
This listing is only for RGB2HDMI adapter with switch button. Nothing else is included.
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