RE: [stella] problems with monitor syncing

Subject: RE: [stella] problems with monitor syncing
From: Adam Wozniak <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:29:37 -0400
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On Mon, 2 May 2005, Fred Quimby wrote:
> 99% of VGA monitors cannot sync to a horizontal frequency lower than about 
> twice that of a television (i.e. most VGA's can't do less than about 30 
> kHz.)  Some really old VGA monitors will, but I wouldn't expect that people 
> are going to own these monitors.
> 
> A workable solution would be to store the data from each scanline in a 
> buffer.  Once full, output the buffer at twice the speed, and do it twice.  
> In fact this is exactly what many simple TV to VGA converters do.

*grumble*

Any way to find out before buying a monitor, how low in frequency it can go?
We need to get down to what here, 15.72 KHz?

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