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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: lorddef on May 31, 2005, 10:53:20 PM

Title: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: lorddef on May 31, 2005, 10:53:20 PM

Maybe if I rename the post to something allong the lines of the usual boring stuff someone will reply? (was "HD Installed games, JST windowed?")

I've just installed JST so I can have a play at installing some games. I've installed road rash and lotus 3.

The problem is that when I run the games I have to crawl around the back of my tower and unplug the monitor cable from my Voodoo3 and plug it into my sd/ff.

This is a ball ache. Is there any way JST will run windowed? Or can I retarget?

I have a PCI tv card if that gives me any options?

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: lorddef on June 01, 2005, 12:18:31 AM

If only aw.net was up, I think theres still the odd person over there that would reply to a post like this.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: itix on June 01, 2005, 12:30:19 AM

Use WinUAE.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: lorddef on June 01, 2005, 12:33:15 AM

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itix wrote:
Use WinUAE.

Thanks but...

Read the question before answering.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: itix on June 01, 2005, 12:39:04 AM

You cant run JST games windowed or retargetted. Games take over machine and bang HW directly. Although JST makes games HD installable it doesnt make games OS friendly.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: lorddef on June 01, 2005, 12:41:04 AM

A while back someone mentioned retargeting aga back through a tv card.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: itix on June 01, 2005, 12:47:40 AM

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A while back someone mentioned retargeting aga back through a tv card.

Not on same machine (Amiga). If you have another machine with a TV card it works.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: Matt_H on June 01, 2005, 12:48:26 AM

I've read that connecting the Amiga's composite output to the PCI TV card will work. Never tried it first hand, though, and video quality through that port is pretty bad.

I use a basic VGA switchbox to flip between CVision and AGA modes. It's selling point is that it's far cheaper (I paid $15US) and more compatible than a KVM (no PS/2 nonsense). Bad news is that there is some signal degredation. It's only really noticable above 1024x768, though, and I never use resolutions that high on my Amigas. The effects can also be minimized by fiddling with CGXMode/P96Mode.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: lorddef on June 01, 2005, 12:49:48 AM

I heard someone set P96 up to reroute aga back through a TV card whilst keeping P96 at the frontmost screen.

Will wait and see if somebody who has done this replies. Thanks for your input.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: lorddef on June 01, 2005, 12:53:58 AM

@Matt H

Yeah I use a KVM, and I was going to do exactly what you do but it will not switch to a screen that doesn't have a keyboard plugged in. I was thinking maybe it'd be a better idea to see if I can find a ps2 splitter so I have my amiga plugged into both banks on th KVM.

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: Gav on June 01, 2005, 12:57:00 AM

Yes you can run AGA screens through a tv card but i only used it for such things as DPaint 5 and so on.If im correct i think its something to do with Arexx which i know nothing about.Peter Gordon can probably answer all your questions about that actually...

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: lorddef on June 01, 2005, 03:08:34 PM

Cheers Gav.

Where do I find this mystical Peter Gordon?

Title: Re: Fleecy Moss is back
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on June 01, 2005, 03:09:42 PM

Look for Xeron either here or on aw.net