georgel wrote:In case you are using the monitor for PCs and you don't need to explore some undocumented features of CGA/EGA cards I do recommend you to use an industry standard for decades VGA card(s) instead of a converter. The image is better than that of CGA or external converters. The refresh/response is natural and does not pass secondary (out of clock) digital processing of converters. These converters are valuable when non-standard (non PC) computers/consoles. A VGA is native and much cheaper option designed by IBM and enhanced by many 3rd party engineering companies and produced and used in hundreds of millions pcs until present time. The converters are hobbyists' projects...
Indeed. And what is anyone messing around with >30 year old hardware for fun, not profit? Very much a hobbyist.
In any event VGA doesn't do a great job of backwards compatibility with CGA, particularly not with those titles that pushed the limits of the standard for better results than white/cyan/magenta/black or red/green/orange/black. Not all systems with CGA/EGA have the option to upgrade to VGA, and even where it is possible, someone might want to keep their ancient hardware in original state rather than adding a totally period-incorrect display adapter.
Have you even seen the MCE2VGA adapter? I second Keropi's recommendation. 'It just works', looks great and lets you run old stuff exactly as intended. Moreover compared to the price of a working TTL monitor or indeed an 8b VGA card, it's very good value. And it lets you use that 'industry standard' monitor you apparently so love.