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Post #4 by Gorgonops
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateThu, 24 Jun 2010 - 16:02
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/external-video-hacking-recased-se-or-no.20756/
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Probably the best bet is to find a 9-pin to VGA 15-pin adapter (assuming the video connector is a PC-style 9-pin) and a multisync VGA monitor and just see what happens.
I'm surprised those adapters seem to be so easy to find as I'm pretty sure Multisync monitors stopped supporting the TTL video standards (MGA/CGA/EGA/etc) somewhere around 1991 or so. I've owned two NEC Multisyncs: an oddball "Multisync GS", a grayscale version of the original Multisync, and had a 9 pin connector on the back. (It of course required a 9-to-15 pin adapter to connect to a VGA card.) I also had a "3D", which had a captive 15 pin VGA cable but *allegedly* could take an adapter on top of that to interface with TTL video cards, but I never used that capability. The thing I believe that *all* the "Old School" Multi-mode Multisyncs had in common however (whether they were made by NEC or a competitor, like Mitsubishi with their "Diamondscan" line) was that there was a switch on them somewhere that selected whether the video used analog or digital signaling. (It was a big obvious slide switch on the older Multisync, while toggling the "mode" button apparently did it on the 3D.) A little Googling suggests that the 3D was the *last* Multisync to support TTL. That could be wrong, but I doubt the capability extends much further.

I suspect you're asking for trouble hooking up one of those nine pin adapters to a newer monitor lacking that switch and feeding what's *probably* a TTL signal into it.

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