[Coco] nitros-09 on a TV

[Frank Pittel]

John,

Thanks for the response. It looks like I'm going to be waiting a little while
longer before I get a fully working coco system. As it stands I'm anxiously
awaiting the delivery of dual 502 floppy drives as well as a coco system that
includes a Tandy RGB monitor that looks to be a CM8. I'm looking forward to
getting a dedicated monitor to use instead of my tv.

Frank


On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:24:52PM -0700, John Guin wrote:
> Hello Frank,
> 
> You are hitting the exact same problem I had for about a year.  I gave up on
> trying to read the screen since I did not know OS9 well enough to blindly
> type in the commands to get out of that mode.
> 
> After a year or so of bidding and losing on RGB monitors on eBay, I finally
> got my hands on a CM8.  Works well now, and I've figured out how to go to 40
> column mode, which is much easier to read.
> 
> Beware of "just RGB" monitors, though.  I had a Commodore monitor which was
> RGB, but was just as hard to read as the television.
> 
> I guess on the one hand "shipping" OS9 should cater to the power user with a
> nice monitor, but on the other hand, the lowest common denominator for
> screen resolution may need to be considered.
> 
> Either way, I'm able to see what I'm doing now.
> 
> Good luck,
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Frank Pittel
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:05 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] nitros-09 on a TV
> 
> 
> After a bit of fussing and a lot of effort by Mark of Cloud9
> (if I haven't said so before thanks for your help Mark) I've
> got my superide working with nitros-09 installed. The complication
> had to do with my lack of a floppy drive. :-)
> 
> With one problem solved I ran into another. When I hook my coco up
> to my tv and start nitros-09 I find that the text on the screen is
> unreadable. I don't have any problems reading the text when booting
> into basic. I did win an action a week ago that includes an rgb monitor.
> Should I wait for the monitor or is there something that I can do now??
> 
> Frank
> 
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