Great Hierophant
Veteran Member
I would dearly love a monitor that could support all of the following:
TTL signal input for MDA/CGA*/EGA with support for 15, 18 & 21kHz (200/350 lines)
Analog RGB input for Amiga, Atari ST, VGA from 320x200 to 1024x768 @ 50-70Hz.
NTSC/PAL field rate support (interlacing @ 25i and 29.97i)
NTSC/PAL color ccomposite & S-Video decoding
True Monochrome Analog (elimination of color burst)
Seperate Sync & Composite Sync
* - Color 6 should be brown, not dark yellow
Such a monitor could support the output of virtually every home vintage computer that has existed. Apple IIs use composite connections, as do most Atari 8-bits and Commodore 64s but some support separate Luma/Chroma (a.k.a. S-Video). Atari STs and Amigas support analog RGB monitors, as does the Apple IIgs. The IBM PC does as well through VGA, but the horizontal scan frequencies are higher than a more classic analog RGB display can handle.
The monitor should be a CRT, and should be of the larger variety (21"). Most vintage monitors seemed to hover around the 13" mark, but that is kind of small in today's world.
TTL signal input for MDA/CGA*/EGA with support for 15, 18 & 21kHz (200/350 lines)
Analog RGB input for Amiga, Atari ST, VGA from 320x200 to 1024x768 @ 50-70Hz.
NTSC/PAL field rate support (interlacing @ 25i and 29.97i)
NTSC/PAL color ccomposite & S-Video decoding
True Monochrome Analog (elimination of color burst)
Seperate Sync & Composite Sync
* - Color 6 should be brown, not dark yellow
Such a monitor could support the output of virtually every home vintage computer that has existed. Apple IIs use composite connections, as do most Atari 8-bits and Commodore 64s but some support separate Luma/Chroma (a.k.a. S-Video). Atari STs and Amigas support analog RGB monitors, as does the Apple IIgs. The IBM PC does as well through VGA, but the horizontal scan frequencies are higher than a more classic analog RGB display can handle.
The monitor should be a CRT, and should be of the larger variety (21"). Most vintage monitors seemed to hover around the 13" mark, but that is kind of small in today's world.