Help! Looking for a LCD monitor that is MACIIci compatible

[bobsstuff]

IIci's are not VGA compatible, but Apple has a list of all the old Macs that will run a VGA monitor.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=12917

I used an Apple 8*24 card and an adapter set to VGA to view files from an old Mac IIci I had. Screen color was totally wrong, but for accessing files it was just right.

 

[IIsi]

Anyone - is there a way to get the IIci to use more memory for video or is this a hardware limitation?

I believe that it is a hardware/firmware limitation. However, it wouldn't be a good idea for performance reasons. Using system RAM as VRAM means that system RAM gets a hammering every time that the screen content changes, slowing down any application that shares that RAM bank. Use the IIci built-in video for ad hoc use, but install a NuBus video card if you are going to use it a lot.

I am fairly certain that the RBV chip is hard coded to use a fixed amount of ram. The Apple Developer Docs for the IIsi/IIci have this information in them, in the Video timing or Architecture section, iirc.

 

[Christopher]

I have long since discarded the 13" apple RGB monster (that sucker weighed a ton!) that went with that monitor.

Your kidding me right? 13" is TINY! How could it feel so heavy?

 

[IIsi]

I have long since discarded the 13" apple RGB monster (that sucker weighed a ton!) that went with that monitor.

Your kidding me right? 13" is TINY! How could it feel so heavy?

That's what my gf said right before we broke up. Too demanding I say...

 

[slomacuser]

I have this adapter

http://shrani.si/f/o/Qu/3OBlM4Uu/picture-1.png

and a VGA compatible mac (Quadra 840av, PM 7100, LC)

but the only resolution I can use is 640x480 ... ?

(option in monitors control panel does not make other resoulutions available)

 

[paws]

My PowerMac 7300 (which has since died) came with a 15" Apple monitor that I assume it was originally bundled with.

The PowerMac obviously has an Apple monitor connector on the back. The monitor, however, had a standard VGA-style plug on it, so the cable to connect them was Apple->VGA. No dip switches or anything.

I've used this to connect a Quadra 700 (both in-built and some low-end NuBus video card), an LC III and of course that PowerMac 7300 (and now a 7500) to my Fujitsu-Siemens 19" 4:3 TFT by connecting the magic cable to the monitor cable via a gender changer.

I've only ever got 832x624 out of any of these machines, though, despite the Quadra and the PowerMac having a full complement of VRAM SIMMs. But it works with no problems...

edit - That being said, the same TFT works with my SGI O2, so it must support SoG. The model number is P19-2P, I think. It's a few years old as I recall.

 

[elbaroni]

I just did a google search for "sync on green" and LCD. A bunch of screens came up. Will any of these work with a IIci given a passive VGA-Mac adaptor, or is something more needed?

 

[defor]

do yourself a favor and find a nubus video card that does not require sog.

the iici will ONLY do 640x480 max resolution (can do portrait as well, but requires hardwired adapter for apple portrait display or compatible) on its internal video output.

thus, not only will you need to find a sog lcd, but almost any lcd over 12" will be running at stretched pixels regardless, and there is no video acceleration to even speak of... your average IIx will run circles around it in video performance.

in regards to the 13" being so heavy..

it's apple's first trinitron monitor...

almost all trinitrons are heavy, and the 13" with its ancient tech exhibits this even more so.