If I was u I would just buy a Commodore 1084 RGB monitor. That monitor is the way Amiga games should be played. All Amiga games were designed with that monitor in mind. It has BRILLIANT saturated colors. And the colors are not all screwey like so many LCD monitors. Also the 1084 monitors can flip ALL the pixels on the screen from any color to any color instantly! Most LCD monitors cannot do any such thing! It is futuristic black magic for so-called "modern" monitors.
Also when u use a 1084S there is no delay added to the display. Most so-called "modern" LCD monitors will add a lag to the display. Everything you are seeing on the screen already happened 1 or 2 frames ago. It ruins all games that depend on instant reflexes an pixel perfect precision.
A modern LCD monitor can only display ONE resolution correctly. All others are displayed incorrectly and laggily. A 1084S can display many resolutions correctly. A 1084S is also nice to use with a Dreamcast if u have one.
There was a guy on here a month or 2 ago begging ppl to take his 1084S monitors FOR FREE. Just pay the shipping. I was going to take them since nobody else wanted them. He was going to throw them in the trash if I did not get them. I guess he was getting thrown out of his house or something. I wanted to save them from oblivion. Its stupid to let valuable Perfectly Working monitors get destroyed. But I am horribly ill and I could not reply to his msgs for a while and.... I guess they are destroyed now. I am feeling depressed about the whole thing.
If you want an instantaneous high speed gfx, brilliant color monitor then you need a 1084 or there was a Magnavox monitor that was a clone, it was just as good as a 1084 or even a bit better. I gave my Magnavox to my mom and she just threw it away rather than give it back to me. I went to the courthouse and Disowned my mother and have never spoken to her since.
If you are playing a turn-based strategy game such as Total Chaos AGA then the lagginess of LCD monitors does not matter so you could happily use an LCD for that purpose.
If you are playing highly advanced HIRES INTERLACED 640x512 games on your A1200 (such as Total Chaos AGA) then getting a high quality flickerfixer and using a high resolution monitor such as an LCD monitor or a 19" multisync CRT (like I am on right now) would be a good deal for you. I own several CRT monitors that connect to my PC and my A1200+FlickerFixer simultaneously and they support all NTSC and PAL Amiga modes!! And they are CRT monitors so they have instantaneous pixel changing without lag.
The one I am using right this second is a 19" ViewSonic UltraBriteA90f+. I certify this to work with NTSC and PAL modes on a Real Amiga with FlickerFixer. I have other models by other manufacturers in the other room if u really need to know others.
The color on all my 31Khz expensive multisync CRT monitors is not as good as any 1084S. 1084S beats them all in color. 1084S is just lower resolution. But Amiga games ARE low resolution so its great for Amiga gaming.
The only monitors I have ever seen with color as good as a 1084S are: DLP monitors and Plasma monitors.
A Plasma monitor could be a good choice for you as you get great colors and high speed pixel changes but I donno how u would find one that is compatible to PAL mode. Its just stupid to use a monitor for old Amiga games that does not support PAL mode. DO NOT BUY ANY MONITOR FOR AMIGA GAMING THAT HAS SABOTOGED THE PAL MODES TO NOT WORK. SUCH MONITORS ARE A RIPOFF. The PAL modes are supposed to work! If they don't work then they are ripping you off on purpose! Do not give them your money!
