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A friend of mine has an old C64, it has a video output enter image description here and we are wondering how to connect this with an VGA or DVI computer monitor?

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@powtac You can try a getting a S Video/Video To VGA Converter. – Krazer Jul 13 '12 at 20:24
Not sure about the video plug, but I remember just using a male-male composite cable to plug it into a TV, but maybe that's not an option? – Thor Jul 13 '12 at 20:27
There was a male to male composite cable with the box... But we want to run it with a PC display. – powtac Jul 13 '12 at 20:32

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The route I initially took with this question was to use a couple converters, something like RF to RCA to VGA. This gentleman was able to accomplish this with a little work:

http://www.commodoreserver.com/BlogEntryView.asp?EID=F4B967500A894E10BE4A104C65DB541E

Another route may be a converter box, which tend to cost a little more money but don't require the labor to get working. Something like this from eBay may be appropriate:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120619073385

If you go with the converter box route, make sure it has either an RF or 8-pin S-Video input (I say 8-pin just to be sure even though RandInLA from the first article says pins 7 and 8 aren't even internally connected).

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According to this the video jack only provides composite output like the RF jack, so what you are looking for is a composite to VGA or DVI converter.

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