Xebec Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 So seeing that Atari Falcon's are now stupid expensive ( > $1,000 USD ) based on recent ebay sales. Is anyone going to offer a service to rent them? My interest in Falcon is just in getting a few hours of experience with one of these machines, just for the feel. Maybe play a few games.. I guess emulator it is. Anyway if anyone read this - what kind of monitors would Falcon 030 users have been using back in the mid 1990s? standard 14-15" VGA monitors? were there any Atari monitors appropriate for use with a Falcon? Thanks John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Mine came with a 14" Fujitech SVGA mono monitor (that would do greyscale). I have to say, that even though it was mono the quality was really good and it was really nice for prolonged hours of work. Later I upgraded to a 15" Viewsonic color SVGA. I'd think you idea is correct, most users would use a vga monitor, even though most early games and demos would require RGB. If you have a really fast machine, Hatari is getting good at falcon emulation, but far from perfect. Still it should give you a feeling on how things would work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Ideally, the type of monitor you would want is a multisync that can handle both VGA and RGB. Like Chris said, many early games and demos (as well as ST games) require RGB. Multisyncs are getting quite hard to find though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junosix Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 If you bought one you could muck about on it for a bit and then sell it on for a similar cost, so you wouldn't lose out much or possibly at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarian1 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Where are you located? Go to a classic computer show like VCF or something. We had 2 Falcons at the Atari Party in Davis, CA last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 I got close to buying a second one, even with the insane prices... talked myself out of bidding more. You almost have to have two in case one expires... or you solder something a little too much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matej Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 (edited) You can try HATARI! Falcon emulator... https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/ It runs lot of software. Edited June 18, 2017 by Matej Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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