[Coco] Re: For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

[Charlie]

Hi Roy.

I purchase from Cloud-9 all the time, If I had more spending money I can
think of 5-6 things that would be on the way to me already. :-p

I can't thank you enough for the XRGB-2 Plus thing. I love the device and
your interface that makes it work with the CoCo.
I received your revised version yesterday. It is much better. You can tell
this is how it is supposed to work.

Now that it is working great I notice something about the device that isn't
bad, but worth noting.

With the sharpness off (at 0) the display is not all that, well.... sharp.
Its about CM-8 quality without the grain.
I prefer the sharpness set to 2. The one thing I notice at this setting is
if you take an 80 column screen and type text all the way across, text just
left to center looks "not as dark". I should note this is on a black on
green screen. It looks to be the result of how the XRGB sharpness filter is
playing with the display and the fact that text on that part of the screen
land on certain vertical lines.....
It's not bad, and setting the sharpness to 3 gets rid of the problem.
However, with sharpness on 3 graphics can be over emphasized. So I find 2 to
be the happy setting.

Overall I couldn't be happier. I've never seen CoCo on the Commodore 1084 or
Magnavox, but I am willing to bet this is the best display for the CoCo so
far. It is beautiful.

Thank you!

I'm sending the old interface back to you today.

Charlie

<RJRTTY at aol.com> wrote in message
news:13e.16eb2ea.2e7b91fe at aol.com...
> In a message dated 9/16/04 5:32:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mmarlett at isd.net
> writes:
>
> > I have been swamped by the SuperIDE project and sales this year. I work
> >  full time and spend at least 1 1/2 hour commutting a day. I have three
> >  orders left and I'll be caught up in my order back log. That hasn't
> >  happened since March of this year. CoCo market? You bet!!!
>
>
>      One reason that I have not purchased anything from cloud-9 lately is
> I am afraid it would take too much of Mark's time.
> I don't  care how long it takes, I am happy to be patient for the
superboard.
> Without Mark and Boisy we got nothing.  One of the reasons I
> stepped up and researched the XRGB upscan converter was to
> give people an alternative to "lets get Mark to do it".  I continue
> to look for other solutions that offer using plentiful SVGA monitors with
> the coco3 ,specifically for something less expensive than the XRGB
> converter.  I have looked inside the XRGB converter and it is "scary"
> in there.  The chip that does the conversion is a high density surface
> mount part driven by another custom part with "XRGB" printed on it.
> That part is connected to the control buttons on the outer encloser.
> Overall, it doesn't look good for finding something simple and
> inexpensive to use as a coco3 based converter.  The AL250
> in the matco converter looks more promising as a useful
> alternative.  I also have on order a converter used with
> the Atari ST series of computer.  We'll see what happens.
>
>      The bottom line is we should be patient.  We don't want Mark
> and Boisy to "burn out" and leave us high and dry.  If it takes
> longer to do it right then I say "so be it".
>
>
> Roy
>
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