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Why bother dragging a pee sea into it? Phantomgraph, for the Tandy Color Computer 3, OS-9 Level 2, does charts & graphs, and presentations. That proves it can be done on a good 8-bit computer. Oddly enough, I can't remember any other presentation app for Atari, Commodore, TI, or Apple. There must be others.

Wow, that's really too bad. The hardware (once you figure out what works well together) looks amazing.

It sounds like it to me too. I don't like emulators, and I won't involve a P.C. in the classic network. I really like the old "TV, tape disk and cartridge" home computers, and the big 4 (I require 4) from the early 80's are the CoCo 2, Atari something, C64, and ti 99/4a. I was hoping for a 1985-86 version of the 99/4a, like the C128 etc. The Geneve *sounds* (so far) more like an "Amiga equivalent" (like Amiga, Atari ST, Archimedes, etc.) with very little native software. I am probably wrong about software, but Probably not what I'm looking for right now, but considering it's strengths, I really wish it was better known.

No thanks, I don't use emulators.

How compatible is the Geneve with ti 99/4a software? What about hardware? (I assume I can't connect a ti 99/4a to a PE box with a Geneve 9640 in it.) Is there any software specifically for the Geneve? I've seen references to a mouse. Does it have a GUI or point & click apps? Is there anything the Geneve can do that the 99/4a can't do slower?

Based on my experience with magazines downloaded from the archive, I'd say PDF looks like a scanned magazine, while PDF with text looks like a blurred blob. It's worth the extra size.

I may be confused, but I thought I saw a pinout on an Apple II site that said it had sync on green. Potatohead, is it possible to connect the composite sync right out of the transistor in your circuit, and still have it on green? ( I'm trying for maximum compatibility here. Tired of having dozens of monitors available, none compatible). I've seen monitors and video outputs something like this: R G with composite sync B H with composite V V That *should* work with most 15khz analog monitors other than EGA (inverted sync). This way if I decide to use both the Apple and the CoCo at the same time I might still be able to see what I'm doing.

How do I make sure the 99/4a I get is NOT the QI version?

Please excuse my inexcuseable ignorance, but what is th QI version?

Wow, that's easy enough. Is the Y-cable only for the PE box card? If I install a 512k-8Mb RAM card, but no 32k expantion, Will I have 16k or 48k RAM, plus RAMdisk? Is there any other sidecar device that will interfere with a PE Box device?

Thanks for the circut, I'll be ordering parts soon! That's exactly what I needed! What's a PVM?

If I could live without 80-collum mode I would, and I wouldn't be here whining and irritating you, but the CC3 has it, so some software requires it. I've noticed that late '90's tvs have verry good pictures on the Commodore, Atari, and CC3 except in 80 collum mode.

RS-232 ports are too useful to be so hard to get. The ti sidecar interface has two ports, the PE box interface has one, and a parralel port. Is it possible to use both at once? Are there any problems I should know about if I try to use both sidecar stuff and a PE box?

I don't want a modern display. I like the look of the picture tube these computers were meant to use. I have and Apple RGB monitor. A composite sync on green mod should be fairly simple, (I hope) and would solve a lot of peoples problems.

I don'r really know, but I'd like to blame it all on The Final Cartridge III. To this day there isn't a C128 version, and that irritates me.

I have one. All by itself, it doesn't work. No vertical sync. The Microbee converter adds another little board and puts them in a nice case. The quality is no better than composite. I sure wish there was someone here who could tell me how to do a composite sync on green mod. It seems like that would be so simple. Then I could use the Apple monitor I have.

I don't know about European standards. They are irrelevant in the United States because European TV's are not sold here. Not that I'm not interested in European, Austrailian or Japanese computers, but I need a monitor that's compatible with *this* American computer. No American TV, VCR, or DVD player has ever had a "SCART" connector. Buying multiple converters gets expensive after a while, so converting from American to foreign, to extraterestrial, to ultraterestrial standards, just so I can change it all back, is something I hope to put off as log as possible. According to some roumors, there is a composite sync signal somwhere inside the CC3. Finding it will help but I'll need to modify connectors or something. Don't some RGB outputs have composite sync on the horizonal pin? How incompatible would that be? Does anyone know how complex a composite sync on green mod would be?

Is the PC-3 compatible with the PC-1?

So I'm supposed to blow a big wad of money on an adapter to convert the Coco's ultra-standard RGBHV (so perfectly standard it makes everything else non-standard) to a weird "standard" that has never been used anywhere on anything by anyone, just so I can blow another big wad of money to convert that to something standard. Regarding Zipster's VGA converter, I already got a VGA converter from Microbee. I think it's as bad as composite, but today I'll hook up my Commodore 1701 and see if it's any better or worse.

The CoCo 3 doesn't have SCART.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It seems like such a simple thing. A clear picture. 80 collum mode in color. Analog color, not rounded off to the nearest CGA equivalent. Sharp text, not blurry. No. The CoCo 3's plain, simple, analog RGBHV is just too stinking simple. Everyone else has to complicate the living daylights out of their monitor. Composite sync. Sync on green. Sync on blue. Sync on the wazoo. 48khz sync. TV gets a lousy picture. Composite gets a lousy picture. CGA gets a lousy picture. VGA with the Microbee RGB to VGA converter is almost as bad as composite. Is there anyone in the whole stinking lousy world who can see what their doing on a Tandy Color Computer 3? HEEEEEELLP!!!

How do you tell the difference between the Apple and Commodore versions of Geos?

The only sort of legitimate complaint I've ever heard about Radio Shack back in the good old days is that the sales people didn't always know what you needed to know. This is understandable though. Radio Shack was a chain like Burger Clown (or whatever it's called) and like those other chains, they hired local people, often including high school kids. Expecting the average high school kid to have a ham radio licence *and* be familiar with six different computer lines is ridiculous. It probably also led to more electronic engineering and computer programming degrees than slinging slop at that other place. Radio Shack's business model had it's good point and it's flaws. A slight lack of knowledge by some of it's employees was to be expected. A bit more knowledge by it's customers should have beeen expected as well. I always thought the critics should have been more understanding, and that many customers should have been more responsible.

The Dk'tronics interface is for a parralel printer, not IDE. I could be wrong (beleive it or not, it's happened before) but I don't beleive Kempston joysticks are Atari compatible. (Neither are Sinclair, MSX, or Coleco.)

Does anyone here have any information about the RCA VP3x0x series terminals? I have found very little. the VP3301 has a serial port and composite video output. The VP3303, my favorite so far, has A/V out and a video modulator, making it ideal for home use back in ye olden tyme. The VP3501 has a numeric keypad. They apparently all have 40 & 80 collum modes and color graphics. I think there was a version of the VP3301 or VP3303 with a standard keyboard (the rest were membrane). That's it. No manuals are on line, just a few (very few!) ads. Do they use standard codes? Can I get one to work with OS-9? Has anyone here ever used one? There's even less about the VP4801, something like a 3501 with a standard keyboard and a printer port.