Re: MultiSync Monitor for the GS

[Scott.Alfter@skunkworks.genesplicer.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <3788681@f10.n209.z1>, Erik Kloeppel <erik@hypermall.com> wrote:
>In article <3uhqhm$9b4_001@NNTP.crl.com>, terryy@crl.com (Terry Yeung) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>>         I'm putting together a PC system and am in the process of buying a 
>> monitor.  I want to be able to use that monitor for both my PC and my GS
>using 
>> a switch-box.  I'm looking at some of the NEC and Sony multi-sync monitors. 

>> Has anyone tried using them for his GS?  Thanks.
> 
>I may be wildly wrong.. but I do believe a standard IIGS can't use one of
>these - the inputs are way off.  Now, if you are looking into a Second
>Sight.. I'd say (sight unseen, pardon the pun) that either should work
>just fine

You'd need to scratchbuild some kind of adapter (one that rearranges the
GS's RGB out to look like a VGA port should work), but if I'm not mistaken,
the NEC MultiSync (original) and MultiSync II can sync down to 15.75 kHz.  I
think some older Sony monitors are also capable of working with slow sync
speeds.  (Try looking for monitors that offer both digital and analog
inputs; CGA (one flavor of digital RGB) syncs at 15.75 kHz.)

I've thought about picking up a MultiSync II...they seem to be cheap enough
nowadays.  I could share it between my GS and my Linux box (which currently
use an Apple Monitor II and a Zenith mono VGA monitor, respectively).

You're not going to get any monitor in current production to work in a GS
without a Second Sight, though, so you can forget about picking up a
MultiSync XE21 or something like that. :-)

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