matching monitors

[Soviet Conscript]

so putting together matching classic computer setups i've come across the issue of the monitor. i like when all the componants to a computer setup are more a less matched most likely meaning from the same company but i've found a few that i can't tell if a monitor was specificly made for them

i know the amiga, c64, fm towns, ti-99 and a few others had monitors specificly made for them but i was wondering about a few

atari 8-bit - i know atari made a color monitor for its later ST series pc's but what about the old 8-bit line? or is the ST monitor the one to use with the old ones as well

apple IIGS - i'm assumeing any apple RGB monitor will work/match

MSX - yhea, i know its more of a OS. kinda like asking if there is a specific monitor for windows pc's but i'm still curious

tandy/radio shack Coco's

[AB Positive]

I know that the C64 monitors take an RGB input called "Chroma/Luma" that has three wires much like Composite. C64 and Atari 8-bit can output this (well, any 8-bit that has a monitor port anyway). Don't know how many others use this, but I DO know the Amiga doesn't - it uses a totally different cable for it's RGB.

[Mitch]

I know that the C64 monitors take an RGB input called "Chroma/Luma" that has three wires much like Composite. C64 and Atari 8-bit can output this (well, any 8-bit that has a monitor port anyway). Don't know how many others use this, but I DO know the Amiga doesn't - it uses a totally different cable for it's RGB.

Actually it's not an RGB input it's just plain old S-Video before they used a 4 pin mini-din connector.

Mitch

[diskoboy]

Most early Apple monitors were those black & green monochrome monitors with the big power button in the top right corner, the giant brightness knob on the right sides mid section, and the screen itself tilted up and down. It was dubbed the 'Monitor II'.



I never saw an Apple 2, running in color until around 1986.

[Flack]

Our Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple II+ clone), which we got in 1982, did color. For the longest time I didn't think the II, II+ or IIe could do color because, like Diskoboy said, all the ones we had at school we had attached to those green screen monitors. (Originally, we had an "Amber" monitor -- like the green screen, except it only did shades of yellow.) We upgraded to an Amdek monitor which was bigger, bulkier, had a built in handle, and did color. It has an RCA input for video and a headphone jack for audio. I currently own three of those monitors; not only do I have a sentimental attachment to them, but they work great for any RCA-based game system or computer (including Apples and Commodores), and moving them around is easy with those built in handles.

[Soviet Conscript]

our apple 2's at school had the green tint monitors.

my apple IIgs though is the last in the apple II line and was ment to be more in the same class as the amiga and atari ST so i'm sure it was ment to play more color games. i don't think many games were made specificly for it though so it was probibly playing more older apple II games then the ones ment for it.

does anyone know what monitor came with the GS? or what monitor was supposed to be used with it?

[Arkhan]

MSX - yhea, i know its more of a OS. kinda like asking if there is a specific monitor for windows pc's but i'm still curious

In the European lands, Philips released a monitor that was widely used. Other then that, no. Not really. No "MSX" monitors. Any RGB monitor was used. If that wasn't available, any composite input screen was used, often even a television.

the funny part is, the Philips monitor basically a Commodore 1084 monitor with a different case.

Commodore didn't make the 1084. Philips did.





Black monitors are Philips, white ones are 1084s.

Note the extreme similarity BECAUSE THEYRE THE SAME MONITOR.





if you want a monitor for MSX, get a 1084 and spray paint it black.

[Soviet Conscript]

or...wasn't the monitor for the cdtv black?

anyways does the 1084 use the same RGB connector for an MSX or am i going to need some goofy adaptor?

[Arkhan]

or...wasn't the monitor for the cdtv black?

anyways does the 1084 use the same RGB connector for an MSX or am i going to need some goofy adaptor?

it does and it doesnt.

you have to find one that has the DIN on it. The 1084 has some with db9 and some with DIN


and a cable with the right pinouts.