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Re: Best Commodore 4000 Monitor?
« on: December 16, 2014, 12:56:20 AM »
Quote from: fondpondforever;779891
Will this do the trick?
 
 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NTSC-PAL-to-PAL-NTSC-SECAM-Mini-Bi-directional-TV-Format-System-Converter-Box-/281526799789
 

Even if the 1942 accepted the composite video that box puts out (and I don't think it will), that converter box would force you to use the A4000's much lower quality composite video output, defeating the whole point of a VGA+ quality multi-sync monitor like the 1942. You might as well use a colour TV found at the side of the road in that case.

From reading this thread, I'm gathering you don't have a lot of understanding of how the various monitors & screenmodes work for Amiga computers. That's totally fine - this place is where you can find that information out and it's entirely legitimate to ask basic questions here. But, I do recommend you take the time to listen to the advice of the people in this thread before you spend a lot of money and end up with a sub-par experience, or a broken, incompatible monitor shipped from the USA at the price of an arm and a leg.

If I were you I'd advertise locally for a used Amiga monitor, or find an old PC monitor that can multisync to Amiga screenmodes (there are lists online). That will probably end up being a much better solution - and likely cheap or free as people are casting off their old CRT monitors by the truckload.
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Re: Best Commodore 4000 Monitor?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2014, 01:14:34 PM »
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I'll take your advice guys and search for one in the UK. :)

Also, you never said what you use your Amiga for.  If it's for games then you'll rarely, if ever, need to go above 640x240 resolution (or the PAL equivalent of the "hi-res" screenmode). In that case, a standard, common 1084 is all you'll really need. I know of only a handful of games (out of thousands) that even require anything higher (like Mechforce, maybe).

Heck, for most action games where there's no fine on-screen text to read, even a SCART connection to a good colour TV or C64 monitor would be quite enough for your needs. You are in the UK, I gather, so most TVs/monitors should have that connector.
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Re: Best Commodore 4000 Monitor?
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2014, 08:31:22 PM »
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I use my Amiga 1200 for Games ;)


Oh...then very little point in getting a 1942 multisync monitor.  A 1084 will do just fine for 99% of all games and is way more common.
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