Good Composite->VGA converters for classic computers (& video games...)

[Zane H. Healy]

At 3:32 PM -0500 6/4/08, Jim Leonard wrote:
>>I still do not have a workable solution to bridge Apple II (not GS) 
>>composite video.  That's the one that really has the non-standard 
>>format.
>
>All this talk about the Apple II composite video, and yet I swear I 
>had at least one or two composite capture cards that could sync to 
>it and grab it just fine... Iomega Buz perhaps?  I have captured 
>video as proof on a CDROM so maybe that's a solution -- a brooktree 
>or similar cheap capture card, displaying the results realtime on a 
>VGA monitor?

I've used a Canopus ADVC-100 (Video-to-Firewire converter) to display 
Apple II video on my PowerMac G5.  Simply plugged it in and fired up 
iMovie.  I don't remember if this was with a IIc, IIgs, or both.

Zane


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