Re: best way to get a //c monitor cable?

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote

> >How's 80 columns look on that bad boy?

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> I'm sure that Sean will tell us that the composite color video
> display of 80-column text is about like any other (non-AppleColor
> Composite) color monitor--crummy.  This is a natural consequence
> of TV decoding of the composite color signal.

Well, its about the same and yet better than I expected. First off, you know
the sliding Apple you see when the GS boots without a drive connected -- 
it's about the size of a good-sized, real edible Apple. I mention that to
give everyone a frame of reference. The TV is a Samsung 61" DLP - and for
giggles and grins I hooked up both a //c+ and GS with a SecondSight card.

With the //c Plus, the TV did an excellent job recreating the usual blast
effect, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. The blast
effect was visibly sharper, and closer to the original images. 80 column
text, just because it's so much BIGGER is quite easy to read - and in 40
column mode, I probably could conduct vision tests for the people across the
street.

The SecondSight was also good though occasionally I had sync problems going
in and out of some programs. Icons on the desktop are about as big as a
person's head. Since everything is bigger, fonts and icons look even more
"blocky".

I always knew that I'd eventually test my gear on the TV just for fun, but
my nearly 3 yr old daughter was the reason I finally did it. Her Mac, the
one that she uses to emulate an Apple //e took a dive - and she wanted her
StickyBear!!! So, seeing an opportunity to both placate my daughter, and
sneek some Apple II gear up from the basement past my wife, I did what I
think any good, resourceful father would do.... Big screen StickyBear. She
loved it.

Karateka wasn't too shabby either.