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   Message 5,167 of 5,684   
   Wesley to Mark McDougall   
   Re: CGA (or EGA or mono) to VGA Adapter   
   15 Dec 09 21:56:15   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.ibm.pc.classic   
   From: wesf@rica.net   
      
   Mark,   
      
   Please keep us posted as to the progress of your converter.  If it works as   
   well and with as many things as you are planning, I'd love to have one,   
   assuming I can justify whatever the cost ends up being.   
      
   Thanks,   
      
   Wesley   
      
      
   "Mark McDougall"  wrote in message   
   news:yNudnYt8VcpQ753WnZ2dnUVZ_gOdnZ2d@westnet.com.au...   
   > Horst Franke wrote:   
   > The video converter was never driven by any particular desire to convert   
   CGA   
   > to VGA - in fact I didn't even have CGA in mind when specifying the TTL   
   > interface - and we started on it well before this thread arose. I   
   mentioned   
   > the converter here only because it will happen to support CGA-VGA.   
   >   
   > Make money? No, defintitely not. This converter was borne out of a need by   
   > myself and my colleague to support a large variety of retro computers on   
   VGA   
   > monitors. My 4th 1084S recently died, and it's impractical to keep   
   repairing   
   > them. They also take up a lot of room. So we decided to design a single   
   box   
   > that we could use on the various TRS-80's, Apples, Commodores, Sinclairs,   
   > Sord M23 etc, not to mention the retro consoles we have as well. If we   
   sell   
   > a few to help fund the development costs, then great!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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