Re: Help Me! Mac II -> NTSC (repost)

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From: Brian Martin
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1989 09:40

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In article <SARREL.89Aug14100509@sioux.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@sioux.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>
>You're joking?  Right?  Someone at MacWeek is pulling our collective
>leg!

The software actually exists; it's on the Apple Color disk which
includes the 32-bit color quickdraw, Monitors 4.0, a new General cdev,
and the Macintosh II video card utility cdev. A friend of mine made up
the appropriate cable, and we were able to drive a television monitor
directly off of the Apple video card. The picture quality is quite
good, with support for an 8-bit gray scale but no color. The biggest
drawback when we tried it was that the menu bars and both right and
left sides of the screen were cut off--makes it difficult to
demonstrate a user-friendly system with pull-down menus, or to open
a disk partition on the right side of the screen. Also, there
was a very annoying flicker on screen. All in all, quite a let down.

We're looking into replacing the apple color card with the new Raster
Ops ColorBoard 264, which MacWeek says will provide NTSC output in
addition to driving the Apple RGB monitor.

-- Brian

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From: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Brian Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help Me! Mac II -> NTSC (repost)
Summary: It works, but not very well.
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Date: 15 Aug 89 09:40:55 GMT
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