| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
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| 36.1 | Monitor? Doesn't he have a color TV? | VAXWRK::INGRAM | Larry Ingram | Wed Dec 23 1987 14:51 | 6 | 
|  | >    My brother has a ITT Extra with a color monitor by ITT. It does not
>    have the "normal" composite video in.  Has anyone who is reading
>    this notes file attempted to hook one up to a Nintendo?  I don't 
>    really want to buy him a monitor too.
    
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| 36.2 | no TV | SBLANC::MOEHLENPAH |  | Wed Dec 23 1987 17:37 | 3 | 
|  |     Unfortunately not.  My parents do not believe that TV is enriching so
    to speak.  I can't say the same, but that is not the intent of this
    note.  In any case, I still have the problem!
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| 36.3 |  | CURIE::DECARTERET | The 12 Pains of Christmas | Thu Dec 24 1987 13:45 | 4 | 
|  |     	What forms of input does it have?  Living in the age we are
    today, there must be SOMETHING that will make it work....
    
    			-=*>Jason<*=-
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| 36.4 | don't give up, i'm slow sometimes... | ACCARS::ALDRICH |  | Tue Dec 29 1987 09:05 | 8 | 
|  |     you could always get a VCR with monitor type output, hitch that
    to the TV and then hitch the NINTENDO to the VCR...i also have a
    schematic to hitch up a monitor "driver chip" to a Colecovision
    (remember them... ;-} ), i'll see what the coleco has for a driver
    and if it's the same as the nintendo (could be since both go to
    US tv's), maybe it would work for the NINTENDO too...
    ...bill...
     
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| 36.5 |  | BEING::POSTPISCHIL | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Tue Dec 29 1987 09:46 | 9 | 
|  |     Re .0:
    
    What inputs does the monitor have?  Besides the normal RF output, the
    Nintendo Entertainment System provides separated audio and video.  If
    that is not good enough, you might consider the less-popular Sega
    Master System, which provides RGB output.
    
    
    				-- edp 
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| 36.6 | input | SBLANC::MOEHLENPAH |  | Tue Dec 29 1987 13:52 | 5 | 
|  |     It has a nine-pin connector as its only input.  It plugs directly
    to a color card in the ITT extra.  A bogus setup, if you ask me.
    
    Ed
    
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| 36.7 | Not an easy task... | USHS08::MOFFITT |  | Tue Jan 05 1988 19:51 | 7 | 
|  |     The monitor is looking for TTL level inputs.  I'm sure there must
    be a way to convert TTL to composite, but I doubt if it's worth
    the $$$.  I found an Amdek I color monitor at Best about a year
    ago for $79, and it's perfect.  I'm not sure time and materials
    wouldn't add up to more than that.
    
    Blame TTL video on the IBM PC.
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| 36.8 | another route | ACCARS::ALDRICH |  | Wed Jan 06 1988 06:09 | 9 | 
|  |     did some looking on the "prints" on how to convert for the coleco
    to a monitor output and it calls out pin and resistor conections
    inside the "RF" box mounted on the pc board, don't think it's the
    same one as in the nintendo tho...  ;-(
    
    there is one other person who i know who is a ham-tv operator who
    might be able to draw up a way to convert it tho, i'll try to get
    ahold of him today...
    ...bill... 
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| 36.9 | Commodore | ALCTRZ::BROOKS_DO |  | Wed Feb 15 1989 15:54 | 7 | 
|  |     My husband did not want to give up the T.V. and he 
    hooked the Nintendo up to our old Commodore monitor. I am
    not real keen on this sort of stuff but I do believe he did not
    change anything just hooked it up with the cables nintendo provided.
    
    Donna
    
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| 36.10 | NTSC Composite Video | ULTRA::KINDEL | Bill Kindel @ BXB1 | Fri Feb 17 1989 16:54 | 7 | 
|  |     Re .9:
    
    Our Nintendo is connected to the same monitor I use with my C=64.  The
    picture is noticeably BETTER through the direct connection of the NTSC
    composite video signal than it is when modulated to channel 3 by the
    Nintendo and demodulated by the TV.  You'll find the same is true with
    your VCR. 
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