[Coco] Modern monitors that work on CoCo 3 and MM/1

[Sean]

The Atariage thread I mentioned earlier has reports about other brands and
specific models. I do not think that "freesync" is a guarantee one will
work.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025, 4:18 PM Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> > On Mar 6, 2025, at 4:04 PM, Andrew Ayers via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure you'd agree that there is still merit in the need for such
> adapters, simply because there are likely tons of LCD monitors retro-tech
> people own and use that don't have "FreeSync" in them.
>
> For sure, no one here should EVER discourage any new development of any
> kind. I know every time sound hardware comes up, there is always push back
> from too many choices. Yet, here we are years after all of that, and still
> really don’t have anything to show for it except a few games that used them.
>
> > While I don't need any such adapter today (if anything, I have way too
> many such "adapters" in some form or another), if I did have such a need, I
> don't think I'd go out and buy a new monitor instead of an adapter, unless
> the monitor was cheaper, and I knew for certain it would work with the
> system(s) I already have.
>
> That’s the other thing — there are FreeSync monitors at Best Buy starting
> at $89, and that’s cheaper than just buying the FPGA solution I use ;-) But
> REAL retro folks will only use CRTs anyway so they aren’t lacking for desk
> space.
>
> > I think this "FreeSync" technology definitely warrants further review
> and experimentation, though.
> >
> > I also noticed that there's also something called "GSync" out there, but
> I have no idea if it is the same kind of thing, or whether it allows what
> is being seen with "FreeSync".
>
> I will been on alert for it. I am not even sure what we are looking for.
> Just a monitor that can go down to 15Hz,and then we have to do whatever to
> make the proper sync in the cable?
>
> > I think all of these "sync-ing" technologies should probably be
> documented and tested for "retrocomputing" and "retrogaming" purposes, as
> much as possible...
>
> From my digging, the Atari Jaguar was a similar 15Hz signal and there are
> all kinds of solutions for that (Atari ST was too, so maybe that’s why Jag
> was the same?). But, some of $300+ boxed, and cheap ones don’t handle 80
> column text well.
>
> We do need a mega chart. This problem has been faced by Atari, Apple,
> Commodore, etc. users since none of our machines hook up to a modern VGA or
> HDMI or DVI or Thunderbolt monitor.
>
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