Amy has landed

[A4000_Mad]

costabunny wrote:
One thing - I haven't the time to shut down my PC so i am running on a TV (for now) - how can I change the screen mode from VGA style to std freq's without hooking up to a monitor?  any suggestions

Hi Costabunny

Congrats on getting your A4000 :pint:  :pint:  :pint:

Without trying to freek you out, there is a file called 'screenmode.prefs' in Workbench:Prefs/ENV-Archive/Sys which is the current saved screenmode in your A4000s hard drive.

If you boot from a Workbench floppy disk and replace that file in the hard drive of the A4000 with the file from the floppy, it should make your A4000 ready to go on an Amiga monitor in 'Hi Res' mode

Well it has worked for me on occasions when I have stupidly left a hard drive in a graphics cards screenmode :-P

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

costabunny wrote:
if i cant find a screenmode.prefs - will deleting it cause any harm

Well I just deleted the 'screenmode.prefs' file from an A1200 Desktop running OS3.9. It booted again ok in Hi Res using an Amiga monitor but only in about *4* colours. So you then have to go into Workbench:Prefs and double click on the 'ScreenMode' icon. Now just slide the colour up to 256 and click on 'Save'. This puts a new 'screenmode.prefs' file into Workbench:Prefs/Env-Archive/sys  :-)

A4000 Mad