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chrisk82 · member Member # Joined: 16 Jan 2000 Posts: 91 Location: CO

Okay, this is going to sound really stupid!

I just got an old Powermac computer w/a 21inch trinitron monitor. The powermac use to be a graphic design artists and has a lot of old and good programs (which is my hobby) - but the color depth is limited to 256bit color. So, painting in photoshop or trying to do anything else is kind of useless.

Is it possible to buy a convertor to make my mac monitor run on my pc? I know you can buy an adapter to make a pc monitor run on a mac. Any help would be nice.

Oh and also, with this old powermac - would a new video card possibly help? I know not that much about macs - I'm an extreme pc user though

Thank you much.

Transcendence · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2000 8:35 pm

sony trinitron? If so, I use 1 for my PC and it's fine.

chrisk82 · member Member # Joined: 16 Jan 2000 Posts: 91 Location: CO

It's an old 21in Supermac w/the Trinitron display. I want to hook it up to my pc but don't know if I can - or if there is an adapter for it.

Danny · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2000 10:05 am

Personally I would LOVE to have a 256*BIT* system Chrisk82...

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chrisk82 · member Member # Joined: 16 Jan 2000 Posts: 91 Location: CO

Okay, time to laugh at me. It's an old Quadro 800 Mac - the monitor is a mac monitor.

Know where I can find an adapter?

I know it could use a new vid card and ram - but I'd rather try and finish my pc than mess with an mac.

Pigeon · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2000 8:25 pm

being a mac guy, I don't know if you can get a converter for the PC computer/apple monitor combo. However, do look in the "Monitors" control panel in the Control Panels folder under the Apple Menu and change the color depth if you can. For a Mac that old, you're gonna have a hard time finding a new video card to go in the NuBus slots, but maybe you can lay your hands on some VRAM chips (video ram).