Indivision AGA 4000 / CD32

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There's plenty of room for the lower Zorro card in the A4000D. The design is as flat as the A1200 design.

I have re-uploaded the HighGFX pictures to my server.

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More pictures here: http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.php?p=232430&postcount=775

and here:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.php?p=232435&postcount=778

Jens

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Heat is not a problem, as Indivision AGA is an extremely low-power design. You might run into problems if the flickerfixer is heated by other products, but that applies to pretty much every other hardware, too.

Clearance is really not a problem, the board stands less than 10mm above the mainboard. The 10-pin connector is pretty far away from the Zorro board.

Jens

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arnljot wrote:
This should be a news item, shouldn't it?

Yes, and it was not planned to be released today. AmigaKit was a little fast, and the product description is incomplete. My plans for the next two days were a little different, but this premature release re-arranges my day.

So here's what's NOT in the news item yet:

- final product colour will be blue with white silkscreen print

- We're working on a new "Indivision extreme" screenmode under HighGFX with 1280x1024 pixels

- the next Indivision update is about to be released, hopefully by the weekend. We're still testing.

Oh, and AmigaKit is of course not the only reseller who will carry this product. You will also be able to buy it at Vesalia, GGS-Data, Software Hut, Red's Retro Computing, Gentle Eye and other local Amiga resellers.

Jens

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NovaCoder wrote:

I assume this screen mode will also work with 1200's?

Yes, it will. The specs of the 1200 and the 4000/CD32 version are identical. Any firmware/software update for one version also applies to the other.

Jens

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Neither the A4000D/CD32 version, nor the A1200 version will fir in an A4000T.

Kolla, the black borders are an artefact of your flatscreen. Indivision cannot do very much about it, other than trying to move away from the standards, which confuses most monitors (as you're writing, your monitor displays the "out of range" message).
If you're having difficulties displaying Super72, please install the latest update. Only the very first revision that was delivered in summer of 2008 had problems with Super72. All Indivision AGA models can be flashed with the latest updates, it's re-configurable hardware, so hardware updates are possible by installing a new flash version.

Switching between "always over 60Hz" and "legacy flickerfixer type 49.9Hz mode" is done with the scanrate: Rate 1.00 is the legacy mode and scanrate 1.25 is the new "always over 60Hz" mode. Of course, this only means "always over 60Hz" if you're displaying a standard Amiga mode. The HighGFX modes almost all require the 1.25 scanrate setting and not always output 60+Hz.

Chipram usage with Indivision is equal to chipram usage without. However, with flicker-free 24-bit display in all modes, it's tempting to choose a mode that eats more chipmem. It's like a ride in a sports car: You're tempted to use just a little more gas than you'd do in an economy car :-)

About odd screen aspects, did anyone notice Ratte's HD720 mode?

Jens