Re: IIGS with LC Monitor

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent Quinn) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>Mac and VGA/SVGA monitors are the same
>>thing except for the cable/plug.
>
>Are you sure that applies to the LC and SVGA? A Mac LC will drive a VGA
>monitor with a simple adaptor cable - it won't drive a SVGA monitor with
>the same cable (I gave away a very good, sharp Compaq SVGA monitor 'cause I
>just couldn't get it to work with my LC - all I ever succeeded in getting
>was a completely white screen).

It would depend if the SVGA monitor can sync to the
Mac LC's output.  Most SVGA monitors can.  The ones
that can can also be plugged into an older VGA video
card on a PC (or Apple IIGS) and sync to it.

VGA, SVGA, Macintosh, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Amiga
monitors are all inherently the same.  The only
difference is what frequency it can sync to.  For
VGA, that's 30Khz.  For TV RGB (IIGS, ST, Amiga),
that's 15Khz.