Re: Another Apple II monitor / Nintendo question.

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article rigby@ptd.net (Jon H.) writes...

>If you can't hook the original 8 bit Nintendo up to a IIGS RGB monitor, can
>you hook it up to an Apple Color Composite Monitor that is used on a IIe?

    Absolutely, just use the A/V composite outputs (colored red and yellow)
located on the right side of the console (_not_ the white colored RF jack
directly in back). Take an RCA cable and run it between the "Video" port
on the NES, to the input on the Apple monitor. There is no built-in speaker
on the Apple monitor though, so you'll need to hook the "Audio" connector
to another source (e.g. stereo, TV, VCR, amplified speakers, etc).

>I think getting my nintendo to work with an Apple monitor will be one of my
>little "summer projects"

    Hardly much of a project, just plug the monitor into the NES the same
way you would an Apple IIe. It's a decent display, I think I used an Apple
IIc Color Composite Monitor on a NES years back (and a couple of times on
a green monochrome screen too ;). There are other monitors with sound-in
too, I have about three myself hanging around (a Zenith ZVM131, Amiga 1080,
Commodore 1702).

    A real fun project would be getting my Atari 2600 Jr console working
with a composite screen, but that would be a discussion for another group. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca