Re: Commodore 1901 monitor for IIgs?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

The Amiga has interleaved graphics on the computer. I
don't think the Amiga supported a Composite monitor
so I would think that this monitor was for the Commodore
64/128 series.

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"ralmin" <xbiber@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> > > This is a dual-input monitor, with Composite / Chroma input (2 RCA
> jacks)
> > > and RGBI (9 pin D-shell).
> > >
> > > I don't know how I would separate the PAL encoded composite video
output
> > > from the IIgs to a separate Chroma signal, would that be possible?
> >
> > The Commodore monitors usually have a switch that toggles Composite
> > vs. Separate Luma/Chroma. Attach Composite to the yellow jack and play
> > with the switches.
>
> It works as a monochrome monitor with the composite input in the yellow
> jack, but I can't find any switch to set it to use PAL instead of Chroma.
> Unless that switch might be actually inside the case?
>
> I think this monitor was designed especially for the Commodore 128,
because
> its two input types correspond to the two output types on the 128 exactly.
>
> > > Alternately, could you design a cable to connect the RGB connectors?
> >
> > Better try to find a Commodore 1084 or 1084S(tereo), which has RGB
> > analog as well as RGBI digital inputs, plus of course the Separate and
> > Composite Video inputs. That is one versatile beast. Though the last
> > ones made shortly before the death of Amiga lack some of the inputs, I
> > forget which. However those not very numerous, most have it all.
>
> So is its RGBI not compatible with the IIgs RGB?
>
> Ralmin.
>
>