Re: Using IIgs with VGA monitor - how to go?

["Volkmar Friauf" <vf@apple2.com>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>wrote in
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>Here is a solution for you, if you want to spend upwards
>of $350-$600.
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>http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/A2.2000/OCT.PREVIEW/VideoTurtle/VideoTurtle.
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>Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net>wrote in message
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>>On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:59:33 GMT, "Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I have a laptop that has s-video in and s-video out.. It also came with
a
>>>s-video to composite conversion cable.
>>>
>>>I thought what the hay... so I conected up the cable...fired up MGI
>>>Videowave and there in the preview window on the LCD screen was the IIGS
>>>display.
>>>
>>>Monochrome looks great .... colour on the other hand was pretty bad...
by
>>>toning down the brightness and colour level I could make the Desktop
>useable
>>>but with very little colour.
>>
>>I think it was at KFest '01 that I had taken both my PC and my IIgs
>>but there wasn't enough room on the desk for all the equipment my
>>roommate and I had brought so I didn't have room to have both my
>>machines set up properly.  As I had an ATI All-in-Wonder-128 card in
>>my PC, I used the composite input on my PC to display the output from
>>my IIgs and stuck the IIgs in a corner out of the way.  I too didn't
>>have much luck with colour output but switching the IIgs to monochrome
>>mode made it useable.

I hadn't thought of the VideoTurtle solution - it sounds intriguing! There
are S-Video-to-VGA converters around, so I could hook up *two* converters
to convert RGB to S-Video (with VideoTurtle) and then S-Video to VGA

Are VideoTurtles still available, since all information is from around 97?