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Looking For A Good CGA To VGA Adaptor For A IBM 5160 CGA Card

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First post, by Matrolisk

Posted on 2025-09-04, 02:58

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I have a 5160 with an IBM CGA Card in it. I'm trying to find the best way to go from CGA to VGA.

The options I've seen seem to be...

MCE Adapter By Necroware with the GBS 8200

RGBtoHDMI – 6-bit TTL Edition - On TEXELEC

EternalCRT - Monotech

Does anyone have experience with these...or maybe other ideas?

Reply 1 of 4, by maxtherabbit

Posted on 2025-09-04, 12:53

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what is your target display device, a VGA PC CRT?

Reply 2 of 4, by Matrolisk

Posted on 2025-09-04, 23:36

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It will be a VGA CRT Monitor.

Reply 3 of 4, by Guld

Posted on Today, 01:33

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RGBtoHDMI are great...but doesn't convert to VGA. It goes straight CGA to HDMI.

My MCE2VGA (texelec used to have similar) always had some slight random pixel noise....but it does work. Never connected it to a CRT though. Not sure if the Necroware MCE is better? It looks like a completely different design, so hopefully better?

Reply 4 of 4, by rmay635703

Posted on 7 minutes ago

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I just use a scan doubler a Fourdja ld100

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