Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!ames!uhccux!bmartin 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. Message-ID: <4568@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 15 Aug 89 09:40:55 GMT References: <475@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>Reply-To: bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian Martin) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 22 In article 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