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NFG Forums => SIG X68000 => Topic started by: blue lander on March 30, 2005, 03:42:20 AM

Title: Sharp X1 video pinouts
Post by: blue lander on March 30, 2005, 03:42:20 AM
Sorry if this is off topic, but I figure this is the most likely place I'll find an answer. The X1 isn't an X68000, but it's the precursor to it so I hope that's close enough.

Anyways, I recently bought a Sharp X1-c, and I need to know the video port pinout. It uses a 6 pin DIN connector, not the DB15 that the X68000 and most other Japanese PCs use. I used an oscilloscope to figure out which pins were vertical and horizontal sync, and which pins are RGB, but I don't know which pin specifically is red, green or blue.  The tape drive on the thing doesn't work (it will once I replace a drive belt), so I can't load any software on it yet. I hooked it up to a NEC Multisync II and saw some text about how it's trying to load software, but I have no idea if I hooked the colors up right. A search on Google didn't reveal anything, does anybody here know?

If anybody's curious, this is what I've figured out so far. This is looking at the female DIN port on the back of the machine.

1..........2
......3
.4........5
......6
1: Vertical sync
2: Ground
3: Color signal
4: Color signal
5: Color signal
6: Horizontal sync
Title: Sharp X1 video pinouts
Post by: NFG on March 30, 2005, 04:27:46 AM
Here's the pinout you need:

http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~craze/X1/x1rgb2.htm (http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~craze/X1/x1rgb2.htm)
Title: Sharp X1 video pinouts
Post by: blue lander on March 30, 2005, 04:56:46 AM
Thanks! Somehow I knew you'd know the answer to this one.