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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: keropi on July 29, 2006, 11:30:04 PM

Title: REQ: Picture of DCE scanmagic/flickermagic installed on A4000D...
Post by: keropi on July 29, 2006, 11:30:04 PM
Hi, anyone has an internal DCE scanmagic/flickermagic installed on an A4000D ???? care to share a pic of it installed ?
Thanx!  :-D
Title: Re: REQ: Picture of DCE scanmagic/flickermagic installed on A4000D...
Post by: d0pefish on July 31, 2006, 07:21:41 PM
My camera is crap, and so is my drawing. But the drawing is the best of two bad things! :-D

I briefly used a FlickerMagic in my A4000D but I think it was designed for an A1200. It didnt have the additional board that clipped over a second chip. Also, instead of going directly to a VGA socket, it had a little board that sat in between the VGA socket and the external RGB port of the Amiga, which also connected to the FlickerMagic by a ribbon cable.

There is a different version that was more suited to the A4000; the one with two clip-over-chip boards and maybe also a L-bracket to screw to the case. Either way, this one worked too, it just wasn't as neat.

Here is how it fitted inside my A4000D:
(http://lavaburn.com/images/other/flickermagic.png)

(obviously looking at the card area from the front).

I now have a Compserv Scandoubler II card which suits the A4000 a bit better; but mainly because my FlickerMagic is a bit temperamental...

And yes, I was VERY bored and had too much time to kill. :-D