Haven't been able to find this covered /anywhere/, so I figured I'd ask: what are ym options for getting an external video signal into the 17" iMac I'm suppsoed to be getting this fall?
Reason is, I'm big on the classic gaming. I have a SE, and am trying to find an SE/30, so I have the Mac side covered a bit, but as of this fall I will have no Wintel boxen. I want to acquire a refurb pentium 266 or thereabouts, and I'm trying to figure out if there's a hack or a product out there that would let me input the video from the Pentium box when I get it through the iMac's beautiful screen.
I've seen, in previous TV-related research, that a cheap USB video-capture/input-thingy exists called the "MyTV" or the "MyTVtogo", but I don't see that working on an older computer without a tv-out (though an old PCI tv-out card shouldn't be too hard to find on ebay...).
So in all, I just wanted to see if anyone here has any ideas/hacks to propose... because all my attempts at finding a solution that doesn't cost more than a cheap refurb monitor are coming up dry. I may end up resorting to buying/adopting (whatever's available) an old monitor, but if there's another option, I'd like to know of it, as space is a constraint in a university residence.
Thanks all,
Leigh
(Pandoras's Vox)
Reason is, I'm big on the classic gaming. I have a SE, and am trying to find an SE/30, so I have the Mac side covered a bit, but as of this fall I will have no Wintel boxen. I want to acquire a refurb pentium 266 or thereabouts, and I'm trying to figure out if there's a hack or a product out there that would let me input the video from the Pentium box when I get it through the iMac's beautiful screen.
I've seen, in previous TV-related research, that a cheap USB video-capture/input-thingy exists called the "MyTV" or the "MyTVtogo", but I don't see that working on an older computer without a tv-out (though an old PCI tv-out card shouldn't be too hard to find on ebay...).
So in all, I just wanted to see if anyone here has any ideas/hacks to propose... because all my attempts at finding a solution that doesn't cost more than a cheap refurb monitor are coming up dry. I may end up resorting to buying/adopting (whatever's available) an old monitor, but if there's another option, I'd like to know of it, as space is a constraint in a university residence.
Thanks all,
Leigh
(Pandoras's Vox)