With the advent of Facebook for catching up with friends, it seems about time to add my geeky news items to this patchy blog. That way anything approaching usefulness can be linked to and indexed by search engines.
This time it's the use of a PSone (AKA PlayStation One, PSOne, PS1 etc) LCD monitor on my old 8-bit Apple //c computer. This model which I bought on Yahoo Auctions Japan is a GameHome 4" COLOR TFT LCD MONITOR LCM-40. Setup looks simpler than the equivalent Sony monitor which, in addition to being an annoyingly circular shape, has a funky combined audio/video input socket.
The LCM-40 is a marginally nicer square shape, and has standard RCA inputs in addition to a small built-in metal stand which can be seen below the yellow video jack in the second pic above. Colours are fine, though it is a bit too small and is quite grainy because of its low resolution. I feel the need to buy the Sony screen which looks excellent in Dean's photo's.
2 comments:
Nice pictures, just wanted to say they had something on Ebay a Vector7 which looks like that it is the same thing for a PSone. Only it is black and is 7 inches. Looks like it would work also.
Take Care
Thanks for the pointer. That Vector 7 unit is an inverter too though, so the base makes it a bit big.
Still, I need to try other LCD monitors as the one I've pictured here is pretty poor in 40-column mode. It's ok for games though.
Cheers,
Nick.
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