Re: Vintage Computing Advice

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

Jason wrote:

> > I do not think you'll be very happy with the picture from a 
> > composite-to-VGA converter.  This has been discussed to death on 
> > earlier threads.
>
> I did a bit of digging with Google and found a few threads that touched 
> on it.  I couldn't find any reference to something like this:  
> http://www.ambery.com/vitoxgacoscs.html  It seems like the perfect 
> solution to avoid using an old monitor or waiting around for some FPGA 
> jockey to come up with a hack to read the display memory directly and 
> then output a VGA signal.  The question is, does it work as well as the 
> manufacturer claims?

On anything that follows the NTSC standard it probably works well.  Problem 
being that Apples do not - any of them.  Check archives of this newsgroup for 
technical explanations from greater minds than I.

The only scan converter that's known to provide reasonable results is the 
Highway Model 100 when used with a IIGS.