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?