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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Beast96GT on January 12, 2012, 07:20:04 AM
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My Amiga works great with my LCD monitor, but it has a LARGE border on the edges, I'm assuming to account for CRT monitor edges. Is there a way to get rid of these borders and have the Amiga use the FULL resolution? Thanks!
=Beast
Amiga 2500
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Hi,
have you tried the overscan in your preferences ?
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There's a setting on some LCD monitors which decides what it should do with non-native resolutions - scale or leave alone. It may be that it's not scaling the Amiga's low resolution up, leaving it as a 640x480 box in the middle of a 1280x1024 screen (for example).
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Is it possible to show a photo of how it looks like?
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with my old scan doubler, I had the same situation. On most LCD's it'll let you switch between "stretching" the image or the black borders. This looks funny in games sometimes, btu it does fill the screen, and honestly, the effect isn't too bad.
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I have not tried the overscan option yet... but I will. The miggy is down for a bit while I get this new-fangled flash drive hooked up. The thing is, the border is not black, it's gray like the window backgrounds. It's just the mouse and windows are all constrained to a smaller area. I'll get a pic up soon and you guys can see.
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My Amiga works great with my LCD monitor, but it has a LARGE border on the edges, I'm assuming to account for CRT monitor edges. Is there a way to get rid of these borders and have the Amiga use the FULL resolution? Thanks!
=Beast
Amiga 2500
If you use a boarder blanker the auto on some monitors will adjust more properly.
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I have not tried the overscan option yet... but I will. The miggy is down for a bit while I get this new-fangled flash drive hooked up. The thing is, the border is not black, it's gray like the window backgrounds. It's just the mouse and windows are all constrained to a smaller area. I'll get a pic up soon and you guys can see.
I use a couple of Viewsonic 1920x1080 LCDs with my Amigas. Native modes are scaled and streched so that the almost fill the whole display. As people here have suggested, use the Overscan for workbench, make the biggest display you can and use the "auto adjust" if your monitor has one or center the screen manually.
If you have an IndivisionAGA then look for Ratte's widescreen monitor driver. It will give you a good 1280x768 in 256 colours (IIRC) that scales quite nicely.
That said, my 32bit 1920x1080 looks stunning via my Radeon card. ;)
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I use a couple of Viewsonic 1920x1080 LCDs with my Amigas. Native modes are scaled and streched so that the almost fill the whole display. As people here have suggested, use the Overscan for workbench, make the biggest display you can and use the "auto adjust" if your monitor has one or center the screen manually.
If you have an IndivisionAGA then look for Ratte's widescreen monitor driver. It will give you a good 1280x768 in 256 colours (IIRC) that scales quite nicely.
That said, my 32bit 1920x1080 looks stunning via my Radeon card. ;)
I've searched every way I can think of and I can't find that driver. Could you help me find it?