Re: NTSC stops to exist on Apple //e?

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

"Knut Roll-Lund" <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no> wrote in message 
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> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>> Warren Ernst wrote:
>>
>>> Bryan Parkoff wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>>    What if NTSC monitor and television become obsolete?  The 
>>>> manufacturer
>>>> stops making NTSC.  It is going to replace HDTV.  How can we overcome 
>>>> NTSC
>>>> problem?  The answer is to use VGA monitor.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bryan,
>>>
>>> Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but let me use your words for
>>> another set of statements:
>>>
>>> "Hey guys, what if the Apple II becomes obsolete? Apple stops making
>>> Apple II's. How can we overcome the Apple II problem?"
>>>
>>> Needless to say, we overcome the Apple II being obsolete by sticking
>>> together and taking advantage of the fact that Apple made One Jillion
>>> Apple II computers that nobody else places much value on.
>>>
>>> NTSC monitors will be the same thing: though obsolete, an unimaginable
>>> amount have been built over the decades, and by users sticking
>>> together, we'll probably have access to them for the remainder of our
>>> lives.
>>
>>
>> I'm glad you said that, Warren--I was biting my typing fingers.  ;-)
>>
>> I suppose it's to be expected that folks still entranced by the Apple II
>> would be dreamers and a bit impractical, but there are few enough of us
>> left that we should try to avoid being distracted by imagined problems.
>
> For me it is already a problem, since I'm in the wrong part of the world 
> (in this regard). I have an abundance of multisync monitors and I have 
> some old monochrome monitor too but a color monitor that can do readable 
> 80col text is unobtainable. So to overcome this I made a CGA adapter for 
> the IIe RGB card since I have a CGA monitor (actually belonging to a 286). 
> Old monitors is a problem here. I would like to get a card that could do 
> colors like NTSC but with a bandwidth capable of 80col on a multisync 
> monitor.
>
> I see the SVGA card replace my RGB card as a good solution that will give 
> me the enjoyment of running my Apple IIe many years into the future. (Not 
> VGA because I would like it to use 600 or 768 lines modes if not more and 
> I'd like it to emulate NTSC colors.) (It could go in the aux slot or a 
> normal slot).

    Yes, I wish that newer video is to be built in motherboard without using 
aux slot to replace NTSC circuit.  I intend to develop equations and 
reprogram them into GAL chip.  GAL chip allows to emulate NTSC pixel into 
RGB like Apple IIgs.  GAL chip is like VGC chip, but I have no idea how to 
deconstruct equations from VGC chip.  I would have to spend more time by 
guessing until equations become correct to work artifact NTSC color.
    I can tell when I wish to keep Apple //e and Apple IIgs to exist many 
years later from now using RGB circuit.

Bryan Parkoff