Crazy Monitor idea for old Home Computers

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Dr. Ido wrote:

> At 02:29 PM 4/24/05 -0700, you wrote:
> >> > Has anyone tried to plug an old Home computer into an Analog to
> Digital TV
> >> > converter such as the Canopus ADVC-100, and then use a mondern computer
> >> > with a Firewire port and video capture software as a monitor?
> >>
> >> And the answer would be that with my Apple //gs, I'm getting video,
> >> however, it's B&W.  I assume I should be getting colour output on the
> >> composite port?
> >
> >Uh, yeah ^^;;
> >
> >Perhaps your Canopus is set to PAL (or your IIgs isn't NTSC)?
>
> I thought the composite output on a IIgs was mono only.  To get color you
> have to use the RGB output.  To run it on a VGA monitor I'd use a scan
> doubler such as the Micomsoft XRGB-2.

That doesn't make sense.  I'm not saying I know for sure but the composite
output on the //gs should be color, just like the rest of the ][ series.

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