Microvitec 1438 controls

[srg86]

Hi

Late in my first amiga days, I finally got a multisync monitor replacing my Phillips CM8833MKII. The monitor I got was the Amiga badged Microvitec 1438S.

My excitement was more then a little marred though when in the double pal modes etc the screes would be tall enough to fill the screen but not wide enough, plus it didn't have a horizontal size controll (What were they thinking, why did Amiga Inc let it go out like this!!??)In the end I had to make the virtical size smaller but ended up with a big black border.

Did the original Microvitec branded 1438s have this horizontal size controll or not?

thanks
srg

[srg86]

It just seems odd to me that they would put their name on a monitor which isn't really suitable. Shame they wouldn't have gotten microvitec to update it (like a second revision).

srg

[srg86]

haha oh dear, and that was their first product after the name and logo change.

BTW I never liked that new logo.

srg

[srg86]

Was that because of the no horizontal size? hehe

Mine never went wrong although I only had it for a couple of years then I sold the lot (to help pay for the PC).

srg

[srg86]

I'm going the scan doubler and VGA monitor route, it'll just be soooo much simpler. I've now decided.

srg

[srg86]

Cheers for the advice!  :-)

I've now got a Scanmagic/FlickerMagic T Internal on it's way, got it from ebay at 2/3rd's retail price (just 57 quid!).

I just hope it doesn't get too hot hehe

srg