Re: Using IIgs with VGA monitor - how to go?

["Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Here is a solution for you, if you want to spend upwards
> of $350-$600.
>
>
http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/A2.2000/OCT.PREVIEW/VideoTurtle/VideoTurtle.NE
> W.html
>
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
> http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
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>
> Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net> wrote in message
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> > On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:59:33 GMT, "Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I have a laptop that has s-video in and s-video out.. It also came with
a
> > >s-video to composite conversion cable.
> > >
> > >I thought what the hay... so I conected up the cable...fired up MGI
> > >Videowave and there in the preview window on the LCD screen was the
IIGS
> > >display.
> > >
> > >Monochrome looks great .... colour on the other hand was pretty bad...
by
> > >toning down the brightness and colour level I could make the Desktop
> useable
> > >but with very little colour.
> >
> > I think it was at KFest '01 that I had taken both my PC and my IIgs
> > but there wasn't enough room on the desk for all the equipment my
> > roommate and I had brought so I didn't have room to have both my
> > machines set up properly.  As I had an ATI All-in-Wonder-128 card in
> > my PC, I used the composite input on my PC to display the output from
> > my IIgs and stuck the IIgs in a corner out of the way.  I too didn't
> > have much luck with colour output but switching the IIgs to monochrome
> > mode made it useable.
> >
> > --
> >  Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
> >                  Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
> >  CUT the obvious from my address if you want to e-mail me
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Bill, I have seen mixed reviews of the VT.... It would be nice to try one
out first .....

Glenn