July 1st, 2013 by Benj Edwards
Tracking the shadow people on an Apple II has never been more fun.
[ From Personal Computing, November 1983, inside rear cover ]
Discussion Topic of the Week: Do you own any composite video monitors? Which model/brand is your favorite?
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Tracking the shadow people on an Apple II has never been more fun.
July 1st, 2013 at 3:47 pm
I still have a Commodore 1084 monitor that still works fine even though it was manufactured almost 30 years ago. I mostly use it with a Commodore 128 to play some old games when I’m feeling nostalgic. It’s a great monitor.
July 1st, 2013 at 5:45 pm
I have a Commodore CBM-1702; a Commodore-Amiga 1084, a 1084S and a 1080; an Apple Multiple Scan 15AV and an Apple Multiple Scan 1705; and a NeXT MegaPixel 17 Color.
My favorite is the 1702.
July 2nd, 2013 at 5:54 am
I own… an Amdek Color-I, actually. It replaced an old TI 99/4 monitor(which was apparently a rebranded Zenith). I use it on my 99/4a.
The NTSC-era game consoles are hooked up to a nice NTSC TV from the late 90s. It’s probably sharper than the monitor, in all honesty. ‘S just not convenient to have a computer-in-a-keyboard under the TV, you know? And thus the monitor stays.
July 3rd, 2013 at 3:41 am
I have a Commodore 1802 that’s missing the front panel for the controls. I use it for my C64 and VIC-20, and the colors are still vivid and pretty accurate when compared to TV output.
July 3rd, 2013 at 6:15 pm
I remember these monitors… not fondly because if you left a disk on top of them when you powered them on, the degauss cycle would usually wipe the disk. A painful lesson the first time everyone learned it.
July 4th, 2013 at 11:53 pm
When I went off to college all alone, I didn’t have a TV. But I did take one of these monitors with me from our old Apple II. I used it to hook my Nintendo 64 to. It got me by until I could afford a TV. Paper Mario was my only friend for several weeks until I met some people.
No idea what happened to it. It’s not like me to just toss this kind of stuff, so I must have given it to someone.
Wow, memories.
July 10th, 2013 at 7:09 am
I, too, had a couple of Amdeks. One I used for my SNES console when I didn’t have room for a TV. Great color and compact size were perfect for my situation.
I wonder what ever happen to them…