Crazy Monitor idea for old Home Computers

Dr. Ido dr.ido at bigpond.net.au
Sun Apr 24 22:27:45 CDT 2005


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. 




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