Also does anybody use TV tuner cards you can get for
PC's? It seems
like these could be very useful as they mean you need just one monitor
on your desk. Any recommendations for the best cards?
I don't know about the cards for the PC's, but my PowerMac 8500 makes a
fairly nice monitor for my one Amiga 2000 (so far the only thing I've tried
it with). It has TV, Video, and S-Video options, which are then split into
NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. I've got a old dead VCR hooked up to it so I can get
VHF & UHF. It should handle just about anything I need. Only thing I
haven't figured out is how to do RGB.
The PowerMac itself is one of four systems hooked up to my 20" Sony
Multisync monitor. I've got a 4-way switch that lets me use the PowerMac,
a Amiga 3000, a homemade Pentium, and an Atari TT030. The only down side
is that I've got four different Mice, and keyboards. Every now and then I
get which goes to which mixed up. Also sort of tied in is my old 486 Linux
box which can display on the monitor via a telnet session, or X-Windows.
With the exception of the A2000 and the Atari, they are all tied together
via ethernet (anyone know a good ethernet solution for an Atari TT). A
multi-processor system at it's worst :^) Let me think, pull out the A2000,
add a C-64. Hmmm, now all I've got to do is figure out how to tie a Apple
][gs into this mess!
Zane
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