dparting@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Malthus) (09/25/90)
I recently have come into the possession of an Amiga 500, without monitor. Since the 1084s monitor is _somewhat_ expensive, I was wondering if anyone out there in netland knows of any third-party monitors that will work with the 500. (also, if it would require special cables and such.) Any help on the subject would be greatly appreciated. -- ______ \ / \ / <--- (pretend it's pink) dparting@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu \/
jsevinsk@digi.lonestar.org (John Sevinsky) (09/26/90)
In article <1990Sep24.170239.2321@ecst.csuchico.edu> dparting@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Malthus) writes: > >I recently have come into the possession of an Amiga 500, without monitor. >Since the 1084s monitor is _somewhat_ expensive, I was wondering if anyone >out there in netland knows of any third-party monitors that will work with >the 500. (also, if it would require special cables and such.) Any help on >the subject would be greatly appreciated. > You're right, they are somewhat expensive. That's what inspired me to use my Magnavox TTL RGB monitior that I was using with my C-128 before I got my Amiga. Of course I had to build a special cable, but that was easy. But I got tired of just 16 colors, so thought about converting my monitor into an analog RGB monitor. After taking it apart, I saw a small circuit board that takes the TTL RGB outputs from the computer and converts them to an analog voltage which goes to the rest of the monitor. So, I built my own circuit board that takes the Amiga's analog RGB outputs and bypasses the TTL to analog board in the monitor. Much to my surprise, it worked. I have 4096 colors now. And I saved $250 - $300.