Amiga 1200 questions

[CdreCommodore]

It's been a long time since I had an A1200 (and I still don't have one, but I thought I might like a new toy in the future).  I was wondering if I could bounce a few questions off of the forum members here...

Were there separate PAL and NTSC versions of the A1200, or was there a motherboard jumper for this, or what?

What options are available today for scandoubling/flickerfixing so that I wouldn't have to keep a 1084 monitor on hand?  How hard are they to come by?

Were there different motherboard revisions, and are there revisions to avoid like there were with the big box Amigas?

Thank ewe...

[CdreCommodore]

Yes, there is different versions for PAL and for NTSC.

Is there a hardware modification to change from one to the other?  I seem to recall that the A500 could be handled this way...

You may use VGA without any problem on an standard PC VGA monitor,

Err, are you sure about that?  I'm pretty sure the A1200 spits out a 15khz signal by default, requiring a 1084 or equivalent monitor.

But if you want to make use of the SVGA resolutions then a flicker fixer is recommended, to avoid the flicker.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "SVGA resolutions" when talking about an Amiga 1200.  Are you referring to the DblPAL/DblNTSC modes?

It's possible to find flicker fixers for the A1200, but they cost as much as the A1200 itself, maybe better then to think about a solution with a PCI graphic card, well even more expensive but also better.

Nah, I have no desire (or money) to build a towered system with PCI, etc.  I just want the original A1200 desktop with a PCMCIA network card (I already have the TCP software) and I want to be able to plug it up to my KVM and use it on the same monitor as the rest of my computers.

Thank you for the response.

[CdreCommodore]

@SamuraiCrow

Without a 1084 monitor on hand, how would you be able to boot up and get to ScreenMode prefs to change to the 31khz mode you'd need for a VGA monitor?

[CdreCommodore]

@llwrath:

Aha!