floobydust wrote:
However, I just can't see why anyone would chop up a pair of cables with a knife
.... it would be more useful to simply make an adapter with a couple connectors, some wire and the 100-ohm resistor
I see it as more of a humorous flourish than a serious suggestion. If you want practical, you're not going to be generating video on a floppy drive in the first place.
Adding extra components, even if they're just connectors, goes against the purity of a demo that runs on unmodified hardware. Yes, cutting the cable is technically a modification, and suggesting that the resistor be taken from the C64 is just cheeky. But this way he can at least acknowledge the rules (while bending them past their limit).