Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!lfk From: lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Mono-monitors at colour-adapters ? Message-ID: Date: 15 May 89 17:41:29 GMT References: <5003@uklirb.UUCP> <503@atlas.tegra.UUCP> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Chemistry Lines: 46 In-reply-to: vail@tegra.UUCP's message of 15 May 89 15:06:39 GMT Sorry for the previous article, I slipped and our news interface can't cancel! In article <503@atlas.tegra.UUCP> vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail) writes: In article <5003@uklirb.UUCP> kirchner@uklirb.UUCP (Reinhard Kirchner) writes: How can a monochrome monitor be used at a colour adapter ? [...stuff deleted] Unknown. Maybe someone else knows. Is there any adapter known which does the conversion for CGA and EGA ? Paradise (a division of Western Digital) makes at least two video cards which will do what you want. The first Paradise Modular Graphics Card is old technology and did CGA/MGA with 16 shades on a mono monitor. The newer card is the Paradise AutoSwitch Monchrome EGA (I have this card and had the MG Card, if needed I'll send the model no an such, just don't have it here). This card does EGA/CGA/Herc/MGA and maybe some others. It does *not* do 640X480, but in its TMM (True Mono Mode) does 43 lines X 135 chars (but does not work with fansi-console) and in the autoswitch mode does EGA 640X360 quite well. I recommend this setup. It works even better if you get a hi-res 14" Mono-monitor. #inculde "I am not affiliated with Western Digital, just a satisfied customer" P.S. There are also other cards that do the EGA emulation on a mono-monitor, and there are even some that do this with a VGA card. -- Frank Kolakowski ===================================================================== |lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu || Lee F. Kolakowski | |kolakowski@mscf.med.upenn. || Univ. of Penna. | |c/o jes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu || Dept of Chemistry | |kolakowski@c.chem.upenn.edu || 231 South 34th St. | |bcooperman.kolakowski@bionet-20.arpa || Phila, PA 19104 | |AT&T: 1-215-898-2927 ||--------------------------| |#include || One-Liner Here! | =====================================================================