Re: TV as montior for IIGS?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Master of the Forsaken Souls (teridon@wam.umd.edu) wrote:

: While moving, I dropped my IIGS monitor!  :(  Although the screen
: didn't break, something inside did .. I haven't tried to repair it as 
: yet.  In the mean time, I'd like to know if it is possible to hook up a 
: regular TV as a monitor, or use another monitor (such as a mac or IBM 
: monitor) instead.   If so, what do I have to buy, etc...

If you have a remotely modern TV, you need only run an RCA cable from the
composite video port on the IIgs to a video input on the tube. This works 
great with all II's and even Apple III's. If you have an old tube, then an
RF modulator (can you even get those any more?) is required. But I don't even 
think there's a place to connect one on a IIgs like on old ]['s and //e's and
//c's.
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