FWIW, I can recommend buying a video capture / tv tuner board like a
Happauge or something.  I have a cheapo card that is supported by the 'bktr'
driver under NetBSD.  With the dreamcast plugged into it, I get a quite good
/ readable image, and it is fully "TV" mode so the games aren't an issue.
Not as nice as a VGA box (I have one also), but definitely cool. :-)

You can get one for about $50 USD.  Also, the entire dreamcast video signal
is visible, while on my TV the outside is overscanned and missing. (e.g.
left / right 4-5 characters, couple lines on top and bottom are off screen
on my TV)

Also, I bought a VGA box from "LIK SANG" in Hong Kong, and it is switchable
between VGA and NTSC outputs, so that might be better also, less cable
swapping.

As a side benefit, you can create an MPEG of your dreamcast booting NetBSD
or something. :-)

-Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyrel Beede" <tb90@mail.csuchico.edu>
To: "Greg Ingram" <ingram@symsys.com>
Cc: "Marcus Comstedt" <marcus@idonex.se>; <profund@geocities.com>;
<port-dreamcast@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: Testing Binaries


> > The text output I've seen on a Zenith 36" is very fuzzy but I was
> > expecting it to be.
>
> For $15 bucks you can buy a vga adaptor from www.ebworld.com and it is
pretty sharp... pretty cool
> I've got a KVM switch box for my few machines but the VGA signal turns to
crap so I just un-plug and
> plug in my monitor everytime I switch boxes(the backs of the machines are
in arms reach) and I
> haven't messed anything up yet so I suppose what I'm getting at is that
you don't need a KVM to
> share a monitor with your dc if you have the vga adaptor....
>
> Tyrel
>
>


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