Re: Apple monitor with WinPC?

["Scrounge Weasel" <piracy@microsoft.com>]

Keeping in mind that CGA means 320H*200V resolution with not more than 4
colors from a 16 color palette displayed at once, yes, this would work.



"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:9sh9ce$ffu$1@merope.saaf.se...
> In article <3BEAFB3E.10008@digitalcivilization.ca>,
> Mike Pfaiffer  <mike@digitalcivilization.ca> wrote:
>
> MW wrote:
>
> > Can I use an Apple monitor with a Windows PC?
>
> Yes!  For years I had a Microbee(!) B&W monitor with a switch which
> connected it to either an Apple II+ or an XT clone with a CGA
> graphics card.  Both the Apple II+ and the XT produced an NTSC
> composite video signal - it worked fine!
>
> > Can you buy or make "cable adapters"
>
> No need for any cable adapter -- the CGA graphics card has a coax
> output of NTSC composite video.
>
> > and which drivers should be used?
>
> No drivers needed -- the standard BIOS knows how to deal with a CGA
> graphics card.
>
> The hard part may be to find a CGA graphics card.  They haven't been
> manufactured for many years, but you may find a used one somewhere.
>
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