🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: net.micro.apple
Article #2740

Re: IIGS Analog RGB

#2740
From: Usenet netnews
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1986 17:56
39 lines
2442 bytes
Organization : Calfornia Institute of Technology
Keywords: RGB Analog Digital
From: lyles@tybalt.caltech.edu (Lyle N. Scheer)
Path: tybalt.caltech.edu!lyles

In article <2346@udenva.UUCP> mbrookov@udenva.UUCP () writes:
>In article <861029222455.768156@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Hewett@HI-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
>>I really need an answer folks.  Will I be able to use my Amdek 600 RGB
>>monitor (I currently use on my IIc with a Video-7 adapter) directly into
>>the IIGS Analog RGB port?????
>>
>>Thanks.................  Bill Hewett -at HiMultics (617)969-0250
>
>I work for a computer store in Westminster, Colorado.  We carry IBM, Apple
>and Amiga.  The Amiga has simular graphic capabilities as the GS, and what
>happens with other RGB monitors is the monitor maps the 4096 colors to one
>of the colors that the monitor can display.  So instead of getting shades
>of red it would display red.  any program that depends on lots of different 
>shades of colors would not display correctly.

 The monitor you are talking about has to be a Digital RGB.  With Digital,
the colors will not work correctly(Digital RGB just cannot handle all those
shades).  On the other hand, an Analog RGB will work correctly.  Being an
Amiga owner with a Digital RGB/composite/tv, I know all about this(say, does
anyone know how to rewire digital to analog???).  Therefore, if your Amdek is
Analog, you will have no problems.

> I have not tried the GS but
>plan to eventually. (the manager is afraid I will blow it up)  I think it
>is a safe assumption that the //GS will have the same problem.
>
It is not the GS's fault... But you are correct, with the monitor you tested,
you will have that problem.

>                               Matt Brookover 

					Wonko the Sane
					(ex Apple ][+ owner,
					 happy Amiga owner)
Technical Details
Message-ID: <1140@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!cit-vax!news
References: <861029222455.768156@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> <2346@udenva.UUCP>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!cit-vax!news
From: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: IIGS Analog RGB
Message-ID: <1140@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Sat, 8-Nov-86 12:56:33 EST
Article-I.D.: cit-vax.1140
Posted: Sat Nov  8 12:56:33 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Nov-86 04:02:43 EST
References: <861029222455.768156@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> <2346@udenva.UUCP>
Reply-To: lyles@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Lyle N. Scheer)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Lines: 39
Summary: Analog vs Digital