Re: IIgs Video

[ludowick@aol.com (Ludowick)]

Tim sez:

>I want to hook up a video camera and/or a VCR to my IIgs and be able to
>put text captions on a VHS tape.

You can do a simple IIGS to VCR hookup merely by using an ordinary video
auxiliary  cable & connecting it from the NTSC composite monitor port on the GS
to the auxiliary video jack on the VCR (most have them).  The composite video
output of the GS is poor, & you won't have captions, but you can tape the GS
video signal.  If you use a program called Hypercard GS, you can mix text and
graphics and make a video birthday card (or something similar).   I did this
once.  It was cheesy, but it worked.

I wonder, if you had the appropriate cable, if you could connect the audio jack
on the back of the GS to the sound auxiliary port of the VCR.  That would
provide both sound & graphics.

The Video Overlay Card gave a much better NTSC signal, and had other features,
but I don't know much about them.

Ludowick (the sour apple).