Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!aer From: aer@alice.UucP (y) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Apple/Amiga & RGB Message-ID: <4395@alice.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 13:59:45 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4395 Posted: Sat Oct 5 13:59:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 06:52:45 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 32 In followup to questions asked about Amiga RGB/ Apple RGB monitor and interfaces... The most widely used Apple // interface appears to be a card with an Apple /// compatible cable at the end. This is supplied with the Ramworks card, the Taxan card, and the Video-7 card (the latter of which I own.) Amiga uses a different kind of RGB plug than anything else around that is common, but the signals are standard analog RGB. On my video 7, the signals are standard digital X-RGB, though the Taxan RGBvision III monitor is switch-selectable between all three main types of RGB input. Tangent: Apple just introduced the Color Monitor //e and //c, 13 inch composite monitors that display 80 column in a black and white mode. RGB on an Apple // with anything up to standard 128K mode double high resolution graphics is just plain old overkill. An RGB monitor emphasizes the faults of Apple graphics- like a vertical white line will actually be made up of two green/purple or blue/red lines juxtaposed. A composite monitor is foggy enough to make such a line seem white. In 16 color double-hi-res graphics, text defined for a monochrome monitor shows up pretty yucky- although it is smoothed out enough on a composite monitor as to be legible. In my opinion, you ought to get a monitor that works best with your Amiga, THEN worry about having it work with an Apple //. The Apple // is flexible enough to hook up to most anything you want anyway. D. Rosenberg ________________________________________________________________________ uucp: ..!ihnp4!aer!alice Dan on Murray Hill @ ATT/BTL "These Are My Opinions." ------------------------------------------------------------------------