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How to run PAL games and demos in colour?
« on: July 10, 2012, 04:32:00 AM »
I am on my NTSC Amiga, being used to my PAL Amiga, I'm not accustomed to seeing my demos and games in black and white with the screen too low.

I remember having to hold down both mouse buttons in order to boot into PAL which centers the screen correctly, but how do i get games and demos to display in color?

I have one of Amiga maniac's RGB adapters btw.
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Re: How to run PAL games and demos in colour?
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2012, 10:43:27 PM »
Amiga Maniac's adapter does not seem to be able to resolve this. :(

I really wish I would not have thrown that hard drive through the screen of my nice multi-sync DELL Monitor. Of course I was not aiming at the monitor, but that's where it ended up. Sighh....
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Re: How to run PAL games and demos in colour?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2012, 02:04:47 AM »
I got a 1084S, but am trying to find a solution so I don't have to depend upon it should it some day die. Besides it is kinda huge and is just awkward to have sitting out amongst my other gear.

As for the Dell, I am not home right now so I forget the model number, but I do remember it was not cheap and it was not easy to find. I only had it for about 2 months. :/

What had happened is I came home from my parent's. I had dumped a few Gigs of data from their hard drive onto my external, needless to say my external randomly puked on my when I got home (I had received this one from the factory after the 1st one went bad).

Needless to say this angered me much and during my temper tantrum I threw the drive at the wall intending to break it into pieces and mail it back to it's maker, but as fate would have it, it veered left and smacked straight into my new Dell Monitor.

Again, sighhhh....
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Re: How to run PAL games and demos in colour?
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2012, 08:44:22 PM »
Quote from: desiv;699713
That's precisely why I got a GBS-8200 and made a cable.
Have my A1200 on that now.
Although my A500 and A1000 have their 1084s monitors...

Deskspace be damned, they've earned it!!  ;-)

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How did you modify your GBS-8200 to work with the Amiga's 23 pin port?

Also do the pixels flicker in Laced screen modes, do you experience color loss, etc. etc.?
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Re: How to run PAL games and demos in colour?
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2012, 09:11:59 PM »
For the note, I am running my video out through the 23 Pin port into Amiga Maniac's adapter.
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Re: How to run PAL games and demos in colour?
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2012, 09:27:08 PM »
Ya, I'd def be interested in hearing back from you on this. Especially to know if you are still experiencing any pixel flicker after you adjust the cable.

With Amiga Maniac's Adapter I am stuck in non-laced modes because my S-Video to VGA adapter does not play well with laced modes in the least bit.

Also I have flipped the switches on Amiga Maniac's board, but I just end up going from black and white to rolling screen with lots of reds. :/

I could have swore it used to display PAL fine with my other PAL Amigas. I may have to hook one up and run some tests.
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