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I'd like to buy an old Sega Megadrive, aka Genesis outside the UK. However I don't have a TV or computer monitor to view the graphics on.
I do however have an Amstrad Ctm644, which is a 15Khz CRT without a RF tuner. The pin inis a din plug as follows:
. It is quite simple, rgb and sync.
What model megadrive would connect to this, and how?
If your SMD has RGB output (as suitable for SCART), then you can try. If there is no RGB output, you might try to add PAL decoder (that converts composite signal to sync/R/G/B).
However, there are some problems you might run into:
Sending composite output (sync + B/W signal + color subcarrier) to the plain monitor input for sync only might disrupt correct synchronization in the monitor.
I have a suspicion that amstrad monitors require the amplitude of R/G/B signals to be significantly more than standard 1.0v peak-to-peak. At least, I've heard complaints from a person who've connected his ZX Spectrum 128k's RGB output to such monitor, that the picture was too much faded.
