Re: Best LCD for IIGS

[Conrad <conrad.russo@gmail.com>]

On Sep 13, 1:07 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Sep 13, 3:17 pm, Drew <GoggleD...@gmail.com> wrote:> I am trying to find a 20/22inch LCD that will work with a GS and allow
> > me to use my PC happily and is currently a model that is still for
> > sale. Ideally the LCD should support PIP etc as find it quite handy to
> > have GS on small screen at points (current monitor has composite input
> > and PIP). Don't want much do i ;-)
>
> I am using a SamSung SyncMaster 940MW that I picked up a year and a
> half ago.  I don't know if they're still for sale, but the reason I
> bought it was because it has every connector known to man+dog on it.
> SCART, composite, SVideo, component, and VGA.  It's widescreen, and so
> does the PC at 1440x900 or so.  It might be just 20" diagonally.  My 8-
> bits (and the Mac IIci) put out a less wide picture, so that's
> centered.  I am typing from my PC now with the IIgs running in the PIP
> window.
>
> It looks great in all modes.  Except maybe when hooked to older II+
> computers that took such liberties with the NTSC signal... they look
> pretty crufty.

Has anyone tried using this to connect the GS to a VGA Monitor.

http://www.ambery.com/rgbcgatovgac.html

It seems to be like the XRGB, just a hell of a lot cheaper.  I'm
thinking about getting it and trying it out, but I dunno if it's
compatible.  Any thoughts?