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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: paulp on April 19, 2006, 10:33:01 AM

Title: Amiga TV/Monitor?
Post by: paulp on April 19, 2006, 10:33:01 AM

I have just bought myself an Amiga 500 which I used to own in the early 90's. I don't have a spare tv at the moment and was wondering how difficult it is to connect it to a modern pc monitor.

Hope someone can help

Cheers Paul

Title: Re: Amiga TV/Monitor?
Post by: pjhutch on April 19, 2006, 10:42:08 AM

Modern PC Monitors operate at around 31 Hz and Amigas generate PAL (or NTSC) signals at 15Hz which PC Monitor cannot display. So, to view Amiga signals you need a Scan Doubler to use with PC Monitors.
You also need Workbench 3.0 or later to use the new display nodes such as DBLPAL, VGA Only etc.

Check out AmigaKit shop for one:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=36&osCsid=2623f1aeae41050c93af16b007ee6025

Title: Re: Amiga TV/Monitor?
Post by: motorollin on April 19, 2006, 10:43:32 AM

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pjhutch wrote:
You also need Workbench 3.0 or later to use the new display nodes such as DBLPAL, VGA Only etc.

Not if you're using a scandoubler. The scandoubler uses the Amiga's standard PAL/NTSC screenmodes. There's no need to use DBLPAL or VGAOnly if you've got a scandoubler.

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moto

Title: Re: Amiga TV/Monitor?
Post by: c64_d0c on April 19, 2006, 02:23:04 PM

you are better of getting an amiga monitor... than using the pc monitor
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Title: Re: Amiga TV/Monitor?
Post by: Thomas on April 19, 2006, 03:30:11 PM

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motorollin wrote:

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pjhutch wrote:
You also need Workbench 3.0 or later to use the new display nodes such as DBLPAL, VGA Only etc.

Not if you're using a scandoubler. The scandoubler uses the Amiga's standard PAL/NTSC screenmodes. There's no need to use DBLPAL or VGAOnly if you've got a scandoubler.

DblPAL etc. don't work on the A500 anyway. You need AGA chipset for these modes. And you should not try them with a scandoubler. Modern scandoublers automatically switch off and pass the signal through, but older scandoublers might be destroyed when switching to DblPAL.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: Amiga TV/Monitor?
Post by: Boot_WB on April 20, 2006, 09:43:21 AM

Hi Paul, welcome to A.org - don't be too put off by the technobabble and use of jargon/acronyms.
Did the Amiga 500 you bought come with the TV modulator (you must remember from your old amiga) which you needed to connect it to a tv?
If not, then you either need to get one of these, or use a monitor capable of displaying amiga modes.

Hope you get it up and running.

Title: Re: Amiga TV/Monitor?
Post by: Morax on April 20, 2006, 03:22:02 PM

Or a RGB-Video to SCART converter

Title: Re: Amiga TV/Monitor?
Post by: Oliver on April 20, 2006, 03:32:13 PM

Hi,

You may also like to know that this topic has been discussed rather a lot in this forum, in some detail.  If you do a search of the forum posts, you can probably come up with a lot more info on the topic.  I'm not sure how long the old posts are kept for though.

Good luck,

Oli