A600 questions.

[tokyoracer]

Well i recently bought a A600 for about 100€ and it had a compact flash harddrive and now im looking to expand it.

I just bought a 2MB SRAM pcmcia fastram card for the good proce of 40€ and I will soon order a A603 trapdoor card for a extra megabyte chip ram.

So will this be enough to run WHLoad games?

Also I want to use the amiga to a 20" LCD monitor I have but since it do not support 15KHz mode I cant use it at the moment so im thinking of buying a flixer fixer/scan doubler tho how does this work? As i understand I will need the clockport from the A603 card and put it directly on the agnus chip (dont remember if it was the agnus or gary chip but that ofc i will read before installing) then the real question about this is will I only when using it be able to use 16 color mode in low res?

I have also thought about another solution, I made a scaer cable for the amiga, will i then be able to use a scart to vga converter, it only cost about 40€ in a store near me, and if it works how will it look?blurry as on a TV or sharper? Also will it be able to show fullscreen on the 20" LCD screen that is not widescreen but 4:3 format?

those are my main questions.

sorry for my bad spelling but  im writing this from work on my Nokia N97 :/

Ok well done for getting a 600, though 100 Euro is top dollar for one IMHO.

WHDLoad in my experiance should work ok even on 2Mb so you shouldn't have problems there.

The scan doubler / flicker fixer is exacly what it says, it will double the scanrate to 30Khz so you have alot more compatability with monitors.

Anything more then 4 colours on the Workbench is a bit of a choppy affair (on my old 2mb 600 anyway) so you maybe limited with colours.

As for your clockport, I know not enough about it but I doubt it will fit on the Gary as it's the Bus controller.

VGA to Scart in my experiance is utter s***e, I think your better off with a Philips or C= 1084 monitor though i'd get one quick, last monitor I saw went for £74+ and they are rising in value fast! A scan doubler is getting more viable as I type this.

[tokyoracer]

I think you missunderstood me a bit with the clockport, as far as I know using a internal scan doubler/flixerfixer needs the clockport on the A603 also needs to be attached directly to the gary or agnus chip (cant remember wich of them). Also I was talking about the number of colors used in a game because there I do not want 4 or 16 colors

Oh yes sorry I get you now, you on about the Indivision thing, if you don't mind not having a floppy drive to fit it then go for it.

As for colours, in game you should get 256. I think that is the standard number but don't back me up on that.

[tokyoracer]

Hmm,I see alot of people are saying 2Mb isn't enough, looking back I only ran single disk games so maybe that explains why I said it was fine for me.

There was a RAM upgrade that plugged onto the 68k CPU that gave you either 4Mb (PCMCIA active) or 8Mb (PCMCIA disabled). Though if you want one of these things I doubt they are still being made. I really would like one myself if im honest.

Best of luck with the project.