Re: IIgs monitor (video, not call -151) question

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

Rubywand wrote:
> Dennis Jenkins writes ...
> >
> >         I finally have GS/OS 6.0.1!  Yippie for me!
> 
>      Yes; it is kind of like coming out of a dank tunnel into the sunlight.

Naw, it is more like my Mac LC-II, but faster!

> 
> > Anyway, sadly, my monitor
> > sucks.  I have a composite video monitor from Apple.  It has a "color
> > killer" button that I can use to toggle all video from grey scale to
> > color.  GS/OS is readable in gray scale, but when I go to color mode, it
> > really sucks.  The image is very fuzzy.  The question is, would an Apple
> > RGB monitor be better?  I passed one up at the local good will a few
> > months ago (monitor+cable = $9.99) b/c I wasn't sure that I would need
> > it.
>  ....
> 
>      $9.95?!  You should have bought it just to have a spare. The GS RGB monitor
> is better than composite video for most displays-- a lot better.
> 
>      The composite color monitor will usually be a bit better for 'old Apple II'
> graphics formats-- like hires and double-hires; but, the difference is not usually
> enough to justify having two monitors connected.

Funny you should say that.  I run the the composite out of my IIgs into
a splitter.  One
output goes into the color composite monitor, the other into a green
monochrome monitor.
When I want to read the text, I look at the green screen, when i want
pretty colors, I look at the color screen.

Well, it used to be that way.  I un-did last night, as the two monitors
made each other flicker/wave too much.  (I have 3 PCs, a Mac and a IIgs
all next to each other.  I call it my "wall of radiation".  My wife
calls it "birth control" (too much radiation or me not spending enough
time with her... damn apples)).


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