F18A and DVI Switch Box ? How ?

[Shift838]

I decided I wanted to hook up my TI-99/4a that has the F18A video upgrade to my IOGEAR 2 port DVI switch box model # GCS932ub.

 

https://www.iogear.com/product/GCS932UB/

 

 

It also has MIC and audio connectors. It's a DVI-D input.

 

I have not been able to successfully find an adapter for it.

 

I have tried to hook up a VGA to DVI Analog (vga male to DVI Analog female). I think I need a VGA to DVI Analog female then a DVI Analog male to DVI D Female then I can hook up the IOGear cable.

 

Does this sound right or am I pursuing something that can't be done this way?

 

 

[+mizapf]

 

I think I need a VGA to DVI Analog female then a DVI Analog male to DVI D Female then I can hook up the IOGear cable.

 

DVI analog to DVI digital? Sounds like A Kind Of Magic. Or a lot of hardware for frame grabbing.

[Shift838]

Right now I just have it hooked up to my VGA input of my monitor and just have to press that switch to get it changed. Not a big deal really. Just instead of pressing one button on the switch box, I need to press a few times to select the input on the monitor from the menu button. Call it LAZY...

[+jedimatt42]

http://www.datapro.net/news/faq-how-do-i-go-from-dvi-to-vga.html

 

That IOGEAR model, I'm pretty sure, only handles digital video. So as Mizapf said, a lot of hardware.

 

Amazon thinks it is either $1200 worth of hardware, or $50 http://smile.amazon.com/Format-Hardware-Converter-Convert-Digital/dp/B01AUKRHEG/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1460239223&sr=8-14&keywords=vga+to+dvi-d

 

I don't know the quality of that though.

 

-M@

[+OLD CS1]

Could probably go VGA-HDMI (I have seen converters around $50 - $75, my favorite being the "Hammerhead,") then use a passive HDMI-DVI-D adapter or cable with HDMI on one end and DVI-D on the other (the signalling is compatible.)

 

EDIT: OOOOO!! I just found this:

 

Moray VGA to HDMI in-line converter cable