[net.micro.amiga] Apple/Amiga & RGB

aer@alice.UucP (y) (10/05/85)

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
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