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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: dougal on October 05, 2011, 07:41:41 PM

Title: Will a VGA monitor work with a stock Amiga if booted as NTSC?
Post by: dougal on October 05, 2011, 07:41:41 PM

Using an Amiga RGB to VGA adapter and connected to a standard CRT or LCD VGA monitor and booting the Amiga as NTSC, will it work including games etc ?

Title: Re: Will a VGA monitor work with a stock Amiga if booted as NTSC?
Post by: nyteschayde on October 05, 2011, 07:48:30 PM

In most cases no, but it depends on the monitor. The chances are better if the monitor/lcd has cable or television hook-ups but even then its not a guarantee.

Title: Re: Will a VGA monitor work with a stock Amiga if booted as NTSC?
Post by: Zac67 on October 05, 2011, 07:53:38 PM

Generally, no.
The monitor has to support 15 kHz horizontal, 50/60 Hz vertical scan rate (VGA is 31+ kHz). For games, the only option is a compatible monitor or a scandoubler/flickerfixer.

Title: Re: Will a VGA monitor work with a stock Amiga if booted as NTSC?
Post by: runequester on October 05, 2011, 10:02:37 PM

A 1200 set to a suitable screenmode (productivity or doublepal/ntsc) with the vga only monitor driver will work, and there's a handful of games that work in VGA mode, but the majority will not.

Games I've gotten to work either because they support it natively or through modepro or similar apps are:

Eye of the beholder 1 and 2, Warlords, Civilization, the SIM games, Onescapee, Nemac IV, Gloom deluxe, Genetic Species, Total chaos AGA, ScummVM, Subwar 2050 and a few others.

Title: Re: Will a VGA monitor work with a stock Amiga if booted as NTSC?
Post by: orb85750 on October 05, 2011, 10:41:07 PM

But there is another thread on this board about certain Dell LCD models that do work directly.

Title: Re: Will a VGA monitor work with a stock Amiga if booted as NTSC?
Post by: Zac67 on October 06, 2011, 07:35:09 AM

Then they're not only 31+kHz but also 15 kHz compatible.

Title: Re: Will a VGA monitor work with a stock Amiga if booted as NTSC?
Post by: orb85750 on October 07, 2011, 12:40:05 AM

Obviously (unless it's magic)

Title: Re: Will a VGA monitor work with a stock Amiga if booted as NTSC?
Post by: bbond007 on October 07, 2011, 01:34:30 AM

Quote from: orb85750;662598

But there is another thread on this board about certain Dell LCD models that do work directly.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58860&highlight=2320