Re: Second Sight

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

vector wrote:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> Interesting.
>>
>> I've always thought that the IIgs's RGB monitor looks great.  And they
>> are as easy to maintain as a TV monitor, since that's what they are.
>> They also seem plentiful, but I suppose that could be relative.
>
>I have a hard time finding them around here, and I'm not willing to pay
>eBay-average shipping prices for one.  

$20-$30 is a lot less than what it will take to get good conversion
to VGA.  If monitor supply is your issue, then it is probably much
simpler to modify an older VGA display to run at a horizontal rate
of 15kHz.  Has anyone listening done it?  Google, anyone?

>But my real interest is in getting
>the RGB out to display on a 17" monitor.  DOTW and Wolf 3D would, as the
>kids used to say, "rock out".

Then you're in luck--just get the analog RGB into a large TV set.  ;-)

SCART connector sets seem to work fine, and, with a little analog
matrixing and buffering, component inputs should also.  This is
_lots_ easier to do well than conversion of pseudo-NTSC RGB to
VGA scan standards.

-michael

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