Re: Atari ST Monitor?

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Ziggy (Ziggy@TheCentre.com) writes:
> bob@bob.us wrote:
>> my email crapped out so i posted this.
>> 
>> just cut the 13 pin cable off the old s124 monitor and connect a vga
>> female plug to the end.  do a google search for the pinouts as i know the
>> atari gang have them online somewhere.  this can only be used for the high
>> video ouput mode as the others won't work.  the other modes work well if
>> using a gs monitor.
>> 
>> i have 2 falcon030s - neither of them for sale.
>> 
>> bob
>> 
>> xxxxx
>> 
>> 
>>>  From: Ziggy <Ziggy@TheCentre.com>
>>>While this is way ot in relation to the GS i realize, what sort of cable
>>>would one wire up to get the ST into a svga monitor?  My SM124 died
>>>*many* years ago. ( and i never could find a falcon in these parts, we
>>>only suspect they exist .. )
> 
> Though the 124 is long gone, i can get another connector. Someone once 
> told me that you had to do some signal processing to get it to work, so 
> i never tried something quite so simplistic 'just to see'..
> 
I have no idea, but it is possible.

I remember articles in the magazines for the Radio Shack Color Computer,
and all kinds of stuff about what monitors would work with it.  There
were some that had reverse sync, so they needed an inverter, and
there were others where the horizontal and vertical syncs were
combined, so they needed to be separated, and I think some monitors
where one of the sync signals rode on one of the color lines.

None of them required much work, but they wouldn't work without
them, or you'd have things like the picture not being in the centre
of the screen.

But I have no idea of the models that were talked about, though
I have a vague feeling the ST monitor might have been one of them.

Try it, and if it doesn't work, then I suspect it is easy to
track down information about what's needed.

  Micahel