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

[Ken Flanagan]

G Sync is Nvidia's proprietary sync technology. AMD created Freesync to
compete and made it royalty free. Nvidia is including Freesync on their
newer cards now.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025, 14:04 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 think all of these "sync-ing" technologies should probably be
> documented and tested for "retrocomputing" and "retrogaming" purposes,
> as much as possible...
>
> Andrew L. Ayers
> Glendale, Arizona
> phoenixgarage.org
> github.com/andrew-ayers
>
> On 3/5/25 11:18 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 21:15:13 -0600
> > From: Allen Huffman<alsplace at pobox.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Subject: [Coco] Modern monitors that work on CoCo 3 and MM/1
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> > With the recent ?discovery? that some ?FreeSync? monitors will work with
> >   a CoCo 3 with just a cable, David Ladd did a test to see if the
> > FreeSync monitor he already had would work with the MM/1 ? and it does.
> > How long has this been a thing? Why are we inventing adapters and FPGAs
> > and PI based converters if monitors exist? 🙂
>
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