>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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Received on Tue Oct 28 1997 - 22:42:43 GMT