[Coco] LCD monitors with VGA converter box.

[Jim Cox]

Hi Steve,

I use the VGA converter that Roy Justice makes.  I have pictures up on my
site at: http://miba51.com/CoCo_VGA_Adpater.html

It works great with CRTs, but as Roy stated in a previous email, I do have
an older model and that may be the reason why mine is a bit touchy with LCDs
(Viewsonic VA 721 to be exact)

For now I can get by with the NEC MultiSync, but eventually I would like to
move up to a LCD because of space limitations.

I have a swing arm CRT stand that I was planning to use for the monitor, but
it's sort of iffy and the monitor is heavy, so I placed the disk drives,
speakers, and converter box on the stand to get them out of the way and make
room on the desk for the monitor.  Not the most conventional use of a CRT
stand, but it did solve a desk realestate issue :-)

-Jim Cox
http://miba51.blogspot.com/
http://cloudymidnights.blogspot.com/


On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Jim Cox wrote:
>
>  I would like to ask a CoCo related question and I am hopeing this message
>> does get lost in all the flaming and bashing going on :-(
>>
>> I finally have my CoCo set up where I can actually use it and I have both
>> a
>> NED MultiSync XV15 CRT monitor and a 15 inch LCD monitor available to use
>> for the system.  In the past when I tried to use the LCD monitor with the
>> VGA converter box, the LCD monitor always had trouble syncing up after a
>> reset.
>>
>> The CRT monitor works find, but is a major space hog.  Has anyone else
>> tried
>> an LCD monitor and experienced issues with syncing up to the VGA
>> converter?
>> If so, did you find a work-around?
>>
>
> I can only guess that the video timing from your VGA converter (what model
> is it?) is right on the edge of the range for the LCD.  I've had great
> success with a Wei-Ya ACV-011 CGA --> VGA converter for my C128 and am
> planning to try it with the CoCo RGB output.  These are little open PCB
> units that power on a 12V wall-wart and are primarily designed for retrofit
> of game machines.  I picked mine up for $70 US.
>
> I've also been using a Highway Model 100 (unfortunately far more expensive)
> as a scan doubler for an Amiga 2000 and to run Apple IIGS video through the
> LCD.  As you can tell, I'm on a campaign to eliminate CRT monitors.
>
> Steve
>
>
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