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Offline fishy_fiz

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Re: A1200 RTG options
« on: January 08, 2012, 02:27:56 PM »
Another option, and one that I used to use is to connect the amiga native display (ie. aga) through a tv tuner card thats plugged into a pci busboard. This will give you the best of both worlds. The far superior output of an rtg display for system frindly stuff and the os itself, plus being able to use custom chipset software (using same monitor).

Personally though Id upgrade your cpu 1st though. While there's definately benefits from going rtg, even on an '030 the cpu will hold back the amount of benefit.
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Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: A1200 RTG options
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2012, 05:51:48 PM »
Quote from: spirantho;674868
It should be pointed out that if you run through a TV card, the quality will be normally a bit worse, and there will always be a few frames of latency.
Your best bet is a monitor with composite video in, or even SCART in for RGB.


Using an RGB<->s-video adaptor gives quite decent results. RGB<->component is nigh on vga quality. As for latency, I can be fussy and never had issues with my a1200/bppc/grex system in regards to latency.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.