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Title: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: djkoelkast on April 13, 2006, 03:28:27 PM

Hi all,

I own an Amiga 4000 with Cybervision64, but I have a problem. The internal flickerfixer/scandoubler has a little flatcable to the Cybervision, it came loose :(

Cybergraphics:

(http://www.retroforum.nl/foto/amiga/a1.jpg)

Here you see the flickerfixer...

(http://www.retroforum.nl/foto/amiga/a2.jpg)

I painted an arrow where the flatcable should be connected

(http://www.retroforum.nl/foto/amiga/a3.jpg)

Only 1 wire was still hanging there...

(http://www.retroforum.nl/foto/amiga/a4.jpg)

And should be there...

(http://www.retroforum.nl/foto/amiga/a5.jpg)

The cable has come loose

(http://www.retroforum.nl/foto/amiga/a6.jpg)

Can *anybody* please tell me which cable should be soldered where so I can go on with repairing the Amiga (as the software is somewhere corrupted too...) on a decent Multiscan monitor in stead of the standard Amiga monitor (with no use of my Cybervision at all).

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: kingkleks on April 13, 2006, 05:41:59 PM

Hi!
Sorry that I can't help you with that problem but where did you get that scandoubler for Cybervision 64? I couldn't find any info about it anywhere. Do you know who made those things?

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: djkoelkast on April 13, 2006, 05:44:29 PM

It came with this A4000 I bought a few years ago, back then the cables were ok, but swapped memory a few times, so the cables became loose...

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: Tahoe on April 13, 2006, 05:48:18 PM

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kingkleks wrote:
Sorry that I can't help you with that problem but where did you get that scandoubler for Cybervision 64? I couldn't find any info about it anywhere. Do you know who made those things?

It's a normal DCE ScanMagic/FlickerMagic SD/FF for the A1200/A4000. They took the VGA cable and soldered it directly to the Cybervision's input connector.

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: adolescent on April 13, 2006, 05:50:35 PM

That's a DCE ScanMagic/FlickerMagic internal scan doubler.  What the previous owner did was take off the VGA connector and solder the wires straight into the pass-through on the CV64.  

I can take mine out this weekend and have a look if nobody else gets to it first.

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: djkoelkast on April 13, 2006, 05:56:16 PM

there was no other cable with it, I also tried a standard RGB > VGA cable, but then it bypasses the scandoubler/flickerfixer and my monitor doesn't like that resolution ;)

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: djkoelkast on April 15, 2006, 11:10:25 AM

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adolescent wrote:

I can take mine out this weekend and have a look if nobody else gets to it first.

I hope you still can so I can fix this and reinstall OS 3.9, because software has become unstable too.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: djkoelkast on October 07, 2006, 02:36:06 PM

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adolescent wrote:
That's a DCE ScanMagic/FlickerMagic internal scan doubler.  What the previous owner did was take off the VGA connector and solder the wires straight into the pass-through on the CV64.  

I can take mine out this weekend and have a look if nobody else gets to it first.

Could you please have a look for me? My Amiga is now collecting dust :(

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: Boot_WB on October 07, 2006, 03:25:37 PM

I think your best bet is to write to DCE and ask them very politely for a pinout of the scandoubler.  You never know, they might just reply.

Best of luck



Rich

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: Bazzaq on October 07, 2006, 03:33:59 PM

Cable is probably the same as the bvision. I was going to have a go at making one for my bvision. Somebody posted this after my request..

Bvision cable (http://dk.aminet.net/hard/hack/BVision-2-SVGA.jpg)

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: zipper on October 07, 2006, 09:04:02 PM

They should be the same; my Eyetech SD/FF uses IDC10 and then some adapters from IDC10 to 15pin SVGA, my CVPPC uses them, too, as I shortened the original lead, also my CV64/3D uses IDC10 to SD/FF with the same adapters.

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: djkoelkast on October 07, 2006, 09:07:37 PM

I don't understand the cable scheme, should I solder the cables as in the scheme? And which pin is 1 on the bottom of my graphics card?

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: djkoelkast on October 13, 2006, 02:44:28 PM

the scheme is not good, there never was 1 cable connected to more than 1 pin...

I'm still hoping for someone to look at his own cable or someone to come with a correct scheme...

Title: Re: Help needed with A4000 cybervision64
Post by: djkoelkast on March 29, 2007, 02:47:26 PM

unfortunatly it didn't work out :-(
anybody any suggestions? I'm still stuck with my broken A4000...