Re: followup (was: wanted: answers)-- RGB vs composite color

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 07:16:09 -0500, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>     Okay; I disconnected the Amdek Color-1 from the II+, lugged it over to
>the IIgs, plugged it in, and tried out the GS System Finder plus Elite (a
>hires game), Air Heart (double-hires), Pirates!/gs (320-mode super-hires),
>and Appleworks 5 (80-column Text).
>
>     First-- no question about it-- the Finder (a 640-mode display) is much
>sharper, better looking, and easier to use via the regular RGB monitor. On
>the composite monitor you get 'banding' of the desktop background color and
>lots of color in the Text. Still, Text is readable (except when
>selected/highlighted).

When my original Commodore 1084 monitor was dying I hooked up a
Monitor II green screen to the composite video out of my IIgs and used
it for most of my regular work and only used the RGB when I needed
colour.  The green screen gave a nice sharp image especially when the
IIgs display control panel was set to monochrome.

I'm sure setting the display control panel to monochrome would help in
many cases where colour wasn't needed when using a colour composite
monitor as well.

I've also hooked the composite video out of my IIgs to the video input
on my ATI All-In-Wonder-128 video card on my PC and got decent result.
If I were to make an RGB to S-Video converter, I'd probably get even
better results.

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