I still find it nearly impossible to get good video captures from my Apple II for demoscene purposes
the best I can get is an old composite->USB capture device which mostly does a good job but struggles with lo-res graphics (grey ends up being closely spaced black/white lines)
I have a retrotink 2 but to capture things I have to run it through an additional HDMI->USB capture device and that's not the best and I can't get the sound to sync up that way. (I'm doing all of this with OBS/Linux which probably isn't helping things)
not sure if getting an even more expensive retrotink 5 would help
nicole_express · 45m ago
"Grey is just closely spaced black/white lines" is an interesting problem to have; grey on the Apple II is always closely spaced lines, but the usual expectation is your TV will process it out (or just won't be high enough dot pitch to see the lines). So it seems like you might need a worse capture device?
These days I've been using a standalone AVerMedia ExRecorder 330 for HDMI captures, that's how the ones in the blog were captured (via the 5X, of course). The older blog posts I link to I think I was still mostly using an Elgato but it didn't work at all on Mac, so I can't imagine their Linux support is much better.
wileydragonfly · 2h ago
I enjoy everything Nicole puts out. Her blog has gotten me through some very boring hours on the clock.
the best I can get is an old composite->USB capture device which mostly does a good job but struggles with lo-res graphics (grey ends up being closely spaced black/white lines)
I have a retrotink 2 but to capture things I have to run it through an additional HDMI->USB capture device and that's not the best and I can't get the sound to sync up that way. (I'm doing all of this with OBS/Linux which probably isn't helping things)
not sure if getting an even more expensive retrotink 5 would help
These days I've been using a standalone AVerMedia ExRecorder 330 for HDMI captures, that's how the ones in the blog were captured (via the 5X, of course). The older blog posts I link to I think I was still mostly using an Elgato but it didn't work at all on Mac, so I can't imagine their Linux support is much better.