Re: AE PC Transporter

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

buggie@.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:

>Thanks for the advice!   If I got a CGA IBM-monitor, with the color
>picture quality be better than the standard IIgs?

Nope.  CGA is digital.  The IIGS monitor is analog.  Analog is
better and can display infinitely more colors.

More importantly, most CGA monitors, including the one that
came with the IBM AT (which I have) have pretty poor
picture tubes.  I think this is because they figured that CGA
can't display many colors so why waste a good picture tube
on such a monitor.

The AppleColor RGB monitor, in contrast, has a much much
better picture tube.  In fact, the colors are more vibrant than
seen in Amiga and Atari ST monitors, which use the same
type of RGB.  If the Apple monitor was not so prone to
failure, it would be very nice.

The PCT's ColorSwitch output, although having the same
color limitations as a CGA monitor, looks better than a real
CGA monitor because the output is going to the AppleColor
RGB monitor.

>Can the IBM monitor called "VGA" or "SVGA" be used?   These
>monitors are most common....

Nope.  Not unless you got a Second Sight card and then
only running IIGS or IIe software, not MS-DOS software.