Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!whitewolf From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Color Monitor Message-ID: Date: 12 May 91 11:16:54 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 X-Unparsable-Date: Sat May 11 91 at 06:12:35 (EDT) |>I am currently researching the various options available for //gs |>owners. So far, I've called 8 or 9 companies and asked for info |>to be sent on any Analog RGB monitors that they make. As I |>write this, two packages (from NEC & Goldstar) that I got |>today are waiting to be opened. | | Anyway, I was in the monitor search a while ago. I finally |just got an Apple RGB (standard for gs), but this is what I found. | | VGA monitors won't work, unless they are multi-scanning. VGA |monitors are analog RGB, but they don't scan at the same frequency. |The multi-scanning monitors are pretty nice, and they provide for |future expansion, because they are usually both TTL and Analog RGB. |The screens are also usually a bit larger, etc. You need a patch |cable though, because you have to go from a D-9 connector to a d-15.. |it's an easy cable to do... ANY analog monitor with a 7Khz or HIGHER refresh rate and has COMPOSITE sync support WILL work with the GS. Macs and VGA cards use seperate horizontal and vertical syncs and some even support both types of sync signals (composite and seperate). Multi-sync also usually have composite and vert&hort sync pins, which is why they will work, and there are VGA monitors out there that do support and work on the GS. It's just finding them without buying the monitors that's the problem. | The Commodore monitors will work, the ones for the Amiga, I |believe the 1084... but I decided against it, because I the Apple one |was the same price. The Amiga monitors also allow for sound to go |through it. I'm not sure what the deal is with the cable. Don't bother with the 1084/S. They only have support for vert/hort sync. This monitor would be adequate... 15Khz refresh rate, analog RGB, but without composite sync support it's of little use to the GS. . INET: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com UUCP: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf ARPA: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf@nosc.mil