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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: jeffimix on May 10, 2003, 08:32:21 PM
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I'm wondering if anyone has good, clear; english instructions for making a scandoubler. I'm 90% certain making one by myself would be cheaper than buying one for way more than its worth from Softhut. I found some stuff on aminet, buts its not very helpful to me.
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A scanddoubler easy ?
Either you are smoking something real good, or you much much
better at electronics than joe average ....
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I have no idea what components are in it, but soldering chips and resistors really is not difficult....unless it's SMD ofcourse.
Designing something is ofcourse a tad more difficult :-).
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Either you are smoking something real good, or you much much better at electronics than joe average ....
Hmm... I HAVE seen home-built scan doublers, but you're very right, they are NOT easy. (Think, you have to buffer an incoming signal, double the clock-rate, and send it to the monitor twice for each frame... That's a decent bit of circuitry) Nor safe. (Amiga components are fragile, and don't like it if you have a voltage/signal on a line that shouldn't, etc) Nor accurate. (Display not as stable as it should be, very touchy wiring, etc.)
Personally, unless your time and equipment is almost worthless, I'd say it's very likely cheaper to pick one up from Softhut, despite the pricing there.
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time is worthless, but meh..... depends on how easy those diagrams look at second glance ... now to boot up bloody crossdos.
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If you don't know what a Phase Locked Loop is, you better not even attempt it.