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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: CGA to Composite
Message-ID: <694@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 06:55:06 GMT
References: <20857@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <4923@well.UUCP> <2397@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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Posted: Sun Jan 17 01:55:06 1988

There seems to be a misunderstanding here. The _original_ IBM CGA cards and 
some of the clone cards have a pair of RCA jacks on them in addition to the 
DB-9 connector. Both jacks are composite.I have been told that one doesn't 
have a chroma signal, but I don't know for sure.

I have been using them for several months with a _monochrome_ composite
monitor. I tired using the video in jack on a 5" color TV but still got 
black & white. I have seen mention of a problem getting some tvs to display
color when they are hooked up to a CGA....

If you don't have the RCA jacks, you can't use a composite monitor unless
someone does a lot of hardware hacking for you. If you do, and your tv doesn't
have a video-in jack, Radio Shack sells an rf modulator for $26.95. I haven't
bought one yet so I don't know how well it works.

-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."