--- On Sun, 1/16/11, Alex Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to lower the resolution?
Set the switches on your VGA monitor adapter to whatever its instructions say
are for a 12" 512x384 monitor, if it supports that resolution.
Try it, you won't like it at 512x384. ;P Your best bet is to get the VRAM SIMMs
to upgrade it to 512K. (Or better, find an LC III or LC III+ or one of the
68040 CPU Macs in the little pizzabox case.)
The LC and LC II are cute little Macintosh computers that are OK for what they
can do with their limitations. If you want to do more, don't put any money into
upgrading those, get a better old Mac.
On these old Macs, the video resolution is set by different combinations of
sense pins on the monitor connector. Each size of monitor supported only one
resolution. Apple's idea with that is it made it simple to setup, plug the
monitor in and the Mac automatically set the correct resolution, the user
didn't have to and could not select a resolution the monitor couldn't handle.
Another reason was Apple wanted perfect WYSIWYG between the screen and printers
at 72 dots per inch, which is what the dot matrix Apple printers were capable
of.
As monitors got bigger and users demanded higher resolutions, mainly for
graphics apps like Illustrator and Photoshop and office apps like Excel, a more
complex sense pin method had to be created along with ways to support more than
one resolution per monitor. It didn't add any capabilities to previous Macs,
the new features were for the new Macs.
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