roger@tippy (Roger McClannen) (08/15/90)
Service Merchandise has the Packard Bell Paper-white VGA monitor on sale for $120. I was thinking about replacing my SM124 monitor with this. (It offers higher resolution than the Atari monitor.) Has anyone tried this? Can some of you techies out there tell me if it will work? Thanks in advance - roger -- tippy!roger@newton.physics.purdue.edu
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (08/17/90)
In article <1990Aug15.002221.13889@tippy> writes: >Service Merchandise has the Packard Bell Paper-white VGA monitor on sale >for $120. I was thinking about replacing my SM124 monitor with this. (It >offers higher resolution than the Atari monitor.) >Has anyone tried this? Can some of you techies out there tell me if it >will work? >Thanks in advance - roger While the monitor may be have a greater resolution, the ST isn't going to take advantage of it. (Unless you modify your ST with something like Overscan or Hyperscreen, etc.) In my opinion, the only reason to get a non-Atari monitor is if you're going to get a multisync, so you can display all 3 modes on one monitor. And the only reason to get a really slick multisync is if you've got some kind of enhanced video that will take advantage of the better resolution. Otherwise forget it, you're wasting your $$$. (For example - don't expect wonderful things from an unmodified ST in high-rez on a multisync. It'll probably look plenty sharp, but the image will appear to be about the same size as a Mac screen. Yikes! Maybe things are different if your multisync has auto-center & auto-scaling, I don't know. I just know that the only reason it's worthwhile for me is because I use the overscan mode.) -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip if one of those data bits happens to flip, one million data bits stored on the chip...
boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (08/17/90)
In article <1990Aug15.002221.13889@tippy> writes: >Service Merchandise has the Packard Bell Paper-white VGA monitor on sale >for $120. I was thinking about replacing my SM124 monitor with this. (It >offers higher resolution than the Atari monitor.) >Has anyone tried this? Can some of you techies out there tell me if it >will work? >Thanks in advance - roger > You may have a hard time running this monitor at 70Hz, which is needed to perfectly emulate a SM124. You can use a multi-sync monitor, with an appro- priate interface. If you figure out a way to use a regular VGA monitor with an ST, please post it!! -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "God is a comedian playing to an FSU Computer Science | audience too afraid to laugh." Technical Support Group | email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | - Voltaire ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------
chris@tharr.UUCP (Chris Allen) (08/28/90)
In article <1990Aug16.204206.12651@math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes: > >(For example - don't expect wonderful things from an unmodified ST in high-rez >on a multisync. It'll probably look plenty sharp, but the image will appear to >be about the same size as a Mac screen. Yikes! Maybe things are different if >your multisync has auto-center & auto-scaling, I don't know. I just know that >the only reason it's worthwhile for me is because I use the overscan mode.) The NEC 3D is well worth getting - it gives an excellent picture in both monochrome and colour modes and the picture can be set to any size that you want it to be. Be warned that the 2A will not work properly on the ST - it is designed exclusively for VGA cards - and cannot sync at the right frequencies for the ST. -- chris@tharr.uucp ..!ukc!axion!tharr!chris Disclaimer: The views expressed above are those of my employer.. <-- tharr public access to Usenet in the UK 0234 261804 -->
shiba@sgi.com (Richard Shiba) (08/28/90)
> >The NEC 3D is well worth getting - it gives an excellent picture in both >monochrome and colour modes and the picture can be set to any size >that you want it to be. > Anyone know how to create the cable to hook a multisync to an ST? Doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to make if I knew what went where...a few local places will make them, but they want (what I consider) an arm and a leg. >Be warned that the 2A will not work properly on the ST - it is designed >exclusively for VGA cards - and cannot sync at the right frequencies for >the ST. > Also, how can you tell which multisyncs will work with the ST? Is it any multisync that will do ega, cga and vga? Rich Shiba