Re: Apple IIGS monitor replacement

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

MdntTrain wrote:
> > Now I get my system disk for my GS, I am faced with another problem:
> > the LCD TV is not suitable for anything 640 mode or 80 column
>
>
> What LCDTV are you using?  Does it have a SCART input?
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> > Now I wonder why there are all talks to use GS on a VGA monitor, etc,
> > but not to a Mac monitor? This is the closest to a GS experience I
> > think. At least Mac monitor might be easier to locate than GS monitor.
>
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> I myself use a Dell 780P (a Sony Trinitron in disguise), but some Mac
> monitors that conform to true VGA specs can be connected to the IIgs
> via an RGB->VGA converter.  I've tried it.  They work as would any
> other VGA monitor.  But many older DB15 Mac monitors are really not
> VGA at all.. being fixed frequency, or even if multisync, just not
> behaving at all with a both a VGA adapter + converter.

IIRC, the older Mac monitors used a scanning frequency that was
unique to Apple, and incompatible with VGA.

-michael

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