Crazy Monitor idea for old Home Computers
Dr. Ido
dr.ido at bigpond.net.au
Mon Apr 25 06:43:29 CDT 2005
At 02:46 AM 4/25/05 -0700, you wrote:
>> I thought the composite output on a IIgs was mono only.
>
>Update to my last post:
>
>Possibly the PAL version had only monochrome composite video; I
>wouldn't know. The NTSC version definitely had color composite
>video.
Possibly. PAL is used here in .au, but most Apple ][e are NTSC. If you
wanted color you either bought a PAL card, RGB card and monitor or Apple's
not-quite-NTSC (which doesn't produce a color picture from other NTSC
sources) color monitor.
Even so running the RGB output of the IIgs through a scan doubler will give
a better picture on a VGA CRT monitor than using the running the composite
output through a TV card. I've read that scan doublers don't work well
with some LCD monitors, in that case using the TV card maybe a better
option.
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