Hmmm, a button to press at startup? Would be great if that were the solution! Otherwise, I think I'll probably have to buy one of those VGA-to-TV converter boxes (that sell for $20-plus). It's a 266MHz desktop, but when I found they were compatible, I fixed the jumper settings and replaced the stock processor with a 400MHz one from a Rev. 1 B/W G3 tower.
Just looking for a way to play my old 8/16-bit games (SNES, Genesis, MAME) on the 25-inch TV downstairs (instead of having to use a desktop monitor). Thought the beige G3 would be a natural for this with its personality card, but had no idea there'd be all these roadblocks! Andy On Jan 21, 1:34 pm, jonas ulrich <[email protected]> wrote: > My first Beige g3 minitower worked great with the tv as its only monitor. I > thing there might be a key you press at startup. There also might be an > extension. How fast is the computer? The older beige g3s had and older video > card that made the video inputs and outputs look like crap. However, the > latest minitowers that they made had great graphics.-Jonas > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:13 AM, mythmaker18 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was wanting to turn an old Beige G3 desktop machine of mine into a > > "video game box" and thought I'd be able to simply run RCA (or S- > > Video) from the personality card's outputs to my TV's inputs. Although > > the sound comes through, I can NOT get the picture on the TV. > > > The ONLY way I've been able to make this work was to hook up an actual > > monitor to the monitor port and turn on "Mirroring" in the control > > strip. Sucky thing is, though, mirroring doesn't stay on after a > > restart/shutdown: it has to be turned on anew each time the machine is > > booted. > > > Does anyone here know of any way I can get this mac to use a TV as its > > only display, without having to have a "real" monitor attached? I feel > > like I've tried everything (even bought one of those cheapo VGA-to-RCA/ > > SVideo cables and that didn't work. > > > I have both a VGA card in the PCI slot and onboard video. Tried both. > > > The reason I think this is SUPPOSED to work is that when I googled the > > subject, I came across some old forum postings from a guy who says he > > uses a TV as his beige G3's only display and it just "works" for him > > (couldn't tell me how to make it work for me, though). > > > Would really like to put this old machine to use, but there's no way > > I'm going to add a computer monitor to my entertainment cabinet, too. > > > Can anybody help? Tried using both MacOS 8.5 and 9.1. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
