Monitors
Michael Pender
I guess it just needs to be an analog monitor that will sync down to 15 kHz?
- Mike
Roger Johnstone
There are some LCD monitors which have composite video inputs, and even
some which have a TV tuner built-in. I don't know if the VGA inputs on
any of them can sync down to 15kHz though, so you might be restricted to
using the composite input.
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Bill Garber
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Here ya go, one possible solution, and the price is not bad.
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> "Michael Pender" <mpe...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Does anyone sell an LCD monitor that works with the Apple IIgs?
> > I guess it just needs to be an analog monitor that will sync down to 15
> kHz?
> >
> > - Mike
>
> Here ya go, one possible solution, and the price is not bad.
>
> >
>
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=53&products_id=639&PHPSESSID=9d064
fbf4cc8ebc0ce641bdbf4d4cad8
$70 is still a lot considering that Radio Shack used to sell an RF modulator
for $20 that will do the same thing, it just requires a +12 VDC source.
Similarly, a person could just route the composite signal to the video input
port of a VCR.
I'm interested in trying to preserve the "crispness" of an RGB setup, and I
find that a good LCD monitor doesn't produce nearly as much eye strain after
many hours of use as a traditional monitors.
- Mike
Ole Voss
> $70 is still a lot considering that Radio Shack used to sell an RF
modulator
> for $20 that will do the same thing, it just requires a +12 VDC source.
> Similarly, a person could just route the composite signal to the video
input
> port of a VCR.
>
> I'm interested in trying to preserve the "crispness" of an RGB setup, and
I
> find that a good LCD monitor doesn't produce nearly as much eye strain
after
> many hours of use as a traditional monitors.
Considering what the machine is doing, I don't think that $70 is too much to
ask. Afterall, it will keep your eyes from burning ;-)
Supertimer
>http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=53&products_id=639&PHPSESSID=9d064
>fbf4cc8ebc0ce641bdbf4d4cad8
>
>$70 is still a lot considering that Radio Shack used to sell an RF modulator
>for $20 that will do the same thing, it just requires a +12 VDC source.
>Similarly, a person could just route the composite signal to the video input
>port of a VCR.
>
>I'm interested in trying to preserve the "crispness" of an RGB setup, and I
>find that a good LCD monitor doesn't produce nearly as much eye strain after
>many hours of use as a traditional monitors.
You are right. To use IIGS software, you need RGB.
The composite video output is too fuzzy to read.
Even S-Video is not quite up to the task. There was
a device called the Video Turtle that converted the
RGB output to S-Video. IIGS software was actually
usable on a TV with S-Video with this device but it
still lacked crispness of RGB.
Now that the future is obviously HDTV and pretty
much all televisions in the next few years will have
component video input, it seems obvious that a
IIGS RGB to component video converter is the
answer because component video is still 15kHz
but has the sharpness of the IIGS RGB.
Michael J. Mahon
I agree. And it should be doable with a simple analog
matrixing/buffering circuit.
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