Re: TV as montior for IIGS?

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>Master of the Forsaken Souls (teridon@wam.umd.edu) wrote:

>>While moving, I dropped my IIGS monitor!  :(  Although the screen
>>didn't break, something inside did .. I haven't tried to repair it as 
>>yet.  In the mean time, I'd like to know if it is possible to hook up a 
>>regular TV as a monitor, or use another monitor (such as a mac or IBM 
>>monitor) instead.   If so, what do I have to buy, etc...

>If you have a remotely modern TV, you need only run an RCA cable from the
>composite video port on the IIgs to a video input on the tube. This works 
>great with all II's and even Apple III's.

Also, if you have a VCR with a video input port, you can patch the
composite output of the GS to the video input port of the VCR.  On some
VCRs, this connection will automatically pipe the GS output to the
screen.  Others may need you to use a button on the remote control of
the VCR (often called Input) to pipe the video to the screen.

While my GS's monitor works just fine, I still have mine connected this
way in case I want to record the output of the GS.

>If you have an old tube, then an
>RF modulator (can you even get those any more?) is required. But I don't even 
>think there's a place to connect one on a IIgs like on old ]['s and //e's and
>//c's.

You can get one from Radio Shack and they don't require any special
interface to the computer.  They just go between the RCA connector and
the cable connection on the TV, be it cable or VHS twin leads.

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