Re: My original IIGS monitor just blew up!

[amotyka <anthony.motyka@gmail.com>]

On Mar 19, 2:39 pm, bloomer_au <bloo...@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> After finally getting the game Moebius back on to 5.25" floppies with
> ADTPro, I had a marathon of it on my IIGS this eve. After 2.5 hours,
> the monitor started making a schlorpy sound. This became hissing,
> which became smoke and a flash and a bang. My monitor died and emitted
> a horrible smell. Fortunately I was able to save my game just before I
> could no longer see...
>
> However, I now need to get a new VDU for my IIGS.
>
> I was wondering what kind of options I have? Is there something modern
> I could jury-rig or connect it to with an adapter cable? I'd probably
> rather do something like that than try to find another original IIGS
> monitor which will necessarily also be 20+ years old at this point.
> Plus they're so small :)
>
> I can't believe that monitor, and my IIGS, are 21 years old this year.
>
> - Wade

I'm using an Amiga multisync monitor which can sync down to 15khz,
connected to my iigs via a mac-vga adaptor. Obviously this is still an
old crt monitor but not quite as old as the AppleColor ones. This set-
up gives a clear, steady display and nicely renders the colours in 640-
mode without the vertical stripes I hate so much in my emulator.
Because it's multisync I can also use it with other equipment such as
my Powerbook or PC, though I don't think it will go much beyond 30khz.

Anthony