I'd been interested in these for a while, and finally decided to get one, despite having to buy it internationally.
Released around 2002, the Formac Gallery 2010 (presumably named for being 20.10 inches in size) is a 4:3 digital-only monitor at 1600x1200 resolution. I'm quite fond of this resolution size and ratio, especially as it allows for perfect pixel doubling of 800x600 games.
The monitor was released in a few variants, an ADC Mac edition and a DVI+USB+Power one; it also had versions with silver bezels and black bezels. Both are hardly Apple-quality, but definitely have a lot of style; the brightness buttons are capacitive, but not locked by software like Apple's ADC ones.
It's been a while since I messed around with larger yet vintage monitors, and I had completely forgotten that I would actually need a decent graphics card to drive it. Mine is DVI with black-bezels; looks very sleek. Too bad Apple didn't try black bezels during this era.
An online source confirms these cards work with it:
1) Radeon 7000, 32 MB (Mac Edition)
2) Radeon 7500, 64 MB (Mac & PC edition)
3) Radeon 8500, 64 MB (Mac Edition)
4) Radeon 9000, 64 MB (Mac Edition)
5) GeForce 4 TI, 128 MB (Mac edition)
It didn't work with the ATI 16MB Rage Pro, as expected. And it only partially worked with my PCI-based Radeon 9200 Mac Edition (in a G4 B&W), which at 128MB surprised – got a good image, but everything was very... pink.
The only vintage card I got working with it was a Radeon 8500, running through DVI. Finally, with the Radeon 8500 drivers installed, it ran in OS9 and OSX flawlessly.
What a beautiful monitor with excellent colours!
Released around 2002, the Formac Gallery 2010 (presumably named for being 20.10 inches in size) is a 4:3 digital-only monitor at 1600x1200 resolution. I'm quite fond of this resolution size and ratio, especially as it allows for perfect pixel doubling of 800x600 games.
The monitor was released in a few variants, an ADC Mac edition and a DVI+USB+Power one; it also had versions with silver bezels and black bezels. Both are hardly Apple-quality, but definitely have a lot of style; the brightness buttons are capacitive, but not locked by software like Apple's ADC ones.
It's been a while since I messed around with larger yet vintage monitors, and I had completely forgotten that I would actually need a decent graphics card to drive it. Mine is DVI with black-bezels; looks very sleek. Too bad Apple didn't try black bezels during this era.
An online source confirms these cards work with it:
1) Radeon 7000, 32 MB (Mac Edition)
2) Radeon 7500, 64 MB (Mac & PC edition)
3) Radeon 8500, 64 MB (Mac Edition)
4) Radeon 9000, 64 MB (Mac Edition)
5) GeForce 4 TI, 128 MB (Mac edition)
It didn't work with the ATI 16MB Rage Pro, as expected. And it only partially worked with my PCI-based Radeon 9200 Mac Edition (in a G4 B&W), which at 128MB surprised – got a good image, but everything was very... pink.
The only vintage card I got working with it was a Radeon 8500, running through DVI. Finally, with the Radeon 8500 drivers installed, it ran in OS9 and OSX flawlessly.
What a beautiful monitor with excellent colours!
