kind of had it with CRT's...

[cheesestraws]

a card that only works with one model of triangular CRT, is unaccelerated and can only do 5 shades of brown.

ah, yes, that short-lived fad for sepiascale

 

[Phipli]

ah, yes, that short-lived fad for sepiascale

 

[smrieck511]

One of either my Dell or ViewSonic work with my Toby as long as I use a 10 switch adapter, but bluntly, the Toby is just about the worst video card you could have in your machine. I'd suggest as a minimum upgrading to a 4•8 or 8•24. They're still not accelerated, but they have better VGA support and can do higher resolutions and even 24 bit.

Given they're unaccelerated you should be able to get one for a good price, although eBay prices are a bit wonky at the moment (sellers can't tell the difference between a high resolution accelerated card and a card that only works with one model of triangular CRT, is unaccelerated and can only do 5 shades of brown.

interesting. Yeah that's what I figured. Thanks for the info!

 

[smrieck511]

One of either my Dell or ViewSonic work with my Toby as long as I use a 10 switch adapter, but bluntly, the Toby is just about the worst video card you could have in your machine. I'd suggest as a minimum upgrading to a 4•8 or 8•24. They're still not accelerated, but they have better VGA support and can do higher resolutions and even 24 bit.

Given they're unaccelerated you should be able to get one for a good price, although eBay prices are a bit wonky at the moment (sellers can't tell the difference between a high resolution accelerated card and a card that only works with one model of triangular CRT, is unaccelerated and can only do 5 shades of brown.

One question. If all I want is 256 colors at 640 x 480, is it worth it to upgrade the Toby? Will there be significantly better performance at that setting?

 

[Phipli]

One question. If all I want is 256 colors at 640 x 480, is it worth it to upgrade the Toby? Will there be significantly better performance at that setting?

Performance as in graphics drawing speed will be slower with more colours as the CPU has more to do.

With what you have, you can see how this works - set the display to black and white and scroll through a long text document. Set it to 16 colours and do the same and you should be able to see that it is slower.

It's worse again in 8bit and 24bit colours.