On 03/21/2013 11:00 AM, Les Harris wrote:
I wish someone with a lot more domain knowledge than I would produce a scan converter that uses a sliding window to produce pure colors from a source that normally relies on CRT monitors blending things. None of my older 8-bit machines look all that great on LCD monitors and it's surprising that no one has tackled this issue head on. There would appear to be enough owners of Atari, Apple, Tandy Cocos, etc. to make this a reasonably sized market.
There actually is some stuff like this but it's mostly advertised to / focused on the home videogame console market. All those consoles from the 80s and 90s also tend not to look very good on modern LCD screens for similar reasons. The high end includes products like XRGB Mini (expensive but by far the best), the lower end has more reasonable price requirements but lots of contention on if they actually improve anything.
If I had some proof that unit actually produced legible 80-column text from an Apple 2 or 2e, I would have no qualms about purchasing it. I've wasted at least that much money on converters that cannot do the job.
Google turns up no first-hand experiences with XRGB-anything and Apple 2. At 450USD I'm not going to raise my hand and volunteer to be the first.
Steve