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Offline pVC

Re: Please help! Microvitec 1438S or CM8833MK2?
« on: December 01, 2013, 07:00:14 AM »
Quote from: Marmes;753595
Can anyone help me?
I want to buy a monitor, but don't know wich one.
CM8833MK2 or M1438S for amiga 1200/4000.
Thanks for your opinions!


Depends what you do with your Amiga. For pure gaming I'd say CM8833, but M1438S is pretty good too and allows you to use higher flicker free screen modes for utility use. Only drawback I seem to remember is that with M1438S you had to adjust image size between the modes and was there some borders left with AGA modes...

With Scandoubler like Indivision you get really sharp picture, but scrolling isn't smooth, so for pure gaming I wouldn't go with it if you have real video monitors as an option. But for utility use and casual gaming it's good.
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Re: Please help! Microvitec 1438S or CM8833MK2?
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2013, 08:13:23 AM »
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;753680
Sorry, but I'm going to call BS on this urban legend.  I own two Indivisions, both which are hooked up to high quality displays, and have zero problems with scrolling.  It *all* depends on the type of display you hook it up to.  If you use a cheap cable or some cheap-@ss TV or old monitor yeah, you'll probably have problems, but anything with a modern refresh rate should zoom right along.  Money for Indivisions = money well spent, IMHO.

Or maybe your eyes are just better than mine.  :crazy:

 ;)


Modern refresh rates exactly _are_ the problems. If you go anything else than 50Hz you _see_ the stuttering in scrolling. When the output from old Amiga games is 50Hz and your display is something else, there will be skipped frames which is seen with "normal" eyes. And while you can configure for example Indivision AGA mk2 to 50Hz modes, it still doesn't support V-Sync and scrolling won't be smooth. This is much complained and requested feature with Indy mk2 threads.

If there are older scandoublers with 50Hz V-synced outputs, then fine I take my words back with them, they should be good, but they require 50Hz support from monitor too. Most modern LCD monitors start from 60Hz and that's a problem.

Anyway, Amiga is known from its smooth scrolilng games, so it's a shame to lose that with some solutions. Good examples are platformers and pinball games... let SlamTilt scroll its table and you'll get very annoyed with not fitting refresh rates. At least I do with my Indy mk2 :) But for some kind of games it's not that bad.. if game doesn't go in one frame or is 3D etc where refresh rates aren't steady anyway, eyes don't catch it that easily.
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