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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:45:32 JST Adrianna Tan

   I have a PowerMac G4 graphite. DVI to hdmi doesn’t output to a 4K monitor (I guess that should have been obvious). Anyone know what sort of monitor I can hook it up to? I’m trying to build a retro Mac rig for my retro film scanning workflow (I need to run a piece of software from that era)

   #retrocomputing #vintagemac

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:48:46 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Christopher Neugebauer

     @chrisjrn possibly. I don’t know anything about it, I don’t need to see the image super well, I just want to be able to click buttons. I will scan and then do my editing on a modern computer

     Another idea is to switch all that for a 2004ish iBook

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     Christopher Neugebauer (chrisjrn@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:48:47 JST Christopher Neugebauer

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     @skinnylatte would connecting through a capture card/upscaler be acceptable to you?

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     Michelle Catherine Marcó (digichelle@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:50:06 JST Michelle Catherine Marcó

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     @skinnylatte I had a PowerMac G4 graphite back in the day. Apple’s monitors were (and are) way too expensive, so I went with a Samsung one like this. Worked great!

     I’m almost willing to bet there are people on Craigslist looking to sell something like this for not a lot of money.

     https://www.ebay.com/itm/256688318852

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:54:19 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Christopher Neugebauer

     @chrisjrn oooh thanks I will investigate

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     Christopher Neugebauer (chrisjrn@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:54:20 JST Christopher Neugebauer

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     @skinnylatte MAYBE something like this will work https://www.amazon.com/ATCCPYDM-Capture-Loop-Out-Compatible-Windows/dp/B0CKHB1C2B -- looks like it has an analog capture device (it supports VGA), so you could probably have the macbook output in a quicktime window or something like that.

     But I'm guessing the trick more generally is that you need an analog DVI input, and most modern monitors don't have the ADC in it.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:54:47 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Joe Beam
     • Stephen Hackett :moof:

     @JoeBeam @ismh86 thank you! It might be easy for me to get a monitor from that era but I’m not sure which one.

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     Joe Beam (joebeam@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 08:54:48 JST Joe Beam

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     • Stephen Hackett :moof:

     @skinnylatte
     @ismh86 Stephen Hackett might be your guy.
     He has an impressive collection of Macs.
     He has great podcasts too.

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     Scott Laird (laird@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 09:55:05 JST Scott Laird

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     @skinnylatte I suspect that it "works", but either your monitor can't upscale the low resolution coming from the Mac or the Mac can't figure out what to do with the EDID data from the monitor.

     As others have mentioned, DVI and HDMI are almost the same thing with a different connector, so it *should* work pretty much every time.

     Do you have any other monitors or TVs kicking around that you could try?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 14:06:17 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chris Vreeland, Restive Elder

     @Devils_Rancher oh wow, thank you for the offer! I’m going to get back to you on that. Going to have to make room for it

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     Chris Vreeland, Restive Elder (devils_rancher@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 14:06:19 JST Chris Vreeland, Restive Elder

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     @skinnylatte I have 2 reliably good DVI 20” displays here. 1 Dell & 1 Apple. Would gladly ship you either one for the cost of freight. The resolution isn’t fancy, but I feel like the color on both is still good. 2002-2004-ish.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 23:50:49 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Scott Laird

     @laird thank you for the info! More weekend project :)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 23:51:14 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • deBaer

     @deBaer thanks! I’m going to find out more about this powermac. Will take it from there. Appreciate it

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     deBaer (debaer@23.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 23:51:16 JST deBaer

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     @skinnylatte Depends on the graphics card. You could try to find a GPU that supports the resolution your monitor has, either PCI or AGP, depending on what busses the Mac has.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 23:51:40 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Gregory Smith

     @treellama thanks for the idea! I will try to figure out which video card it has

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     Gregory Smith (treellama@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 23:51:41 JST Gregory Smith

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     @skinnylatte I have seen some video cards in old Macs that *think* they can do 1080p, so they sync to that. Then they can’t actually output at that. 32 MB Radeons in particular. You’ll likely need to hook it to a 1600x900 max resolution or less monitor to set the resolution. Once lowered, it may then work with the 4K