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Offline Darrin

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Re: Greetings everyone
« on: January 06, 2012, 10:36:42 PM »
Welcome.  I used to do some oilfield work around Denton.

Any plans on what you want to do with your A1200 tower?  I have 2 A1200s in tower cases and 1 still in the wedge.  I'd suggest an Indivision SDFF and a Subway USB card if you haven't already got them.  :)
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2012, 11:16:51 PM »
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Hi Darrin, as a matter of fact, I live in Denton.  
I am just starting to get back into the world of Amiga, so I welcome all suggestions for improving the A1200.  I definitely have the Subway USB on my wishlist. I'm not familiar with the Indivision SDFF, I take it that's a graphics card?  I currently have a Cybervision 64/3d MKII, but like to see what would be a better option.


Hi there.

The Indivision is a scan doubler/flicker fixer for the native modes and also promotes the PAL screens to 60Hz so you'll have no trouble putting any native display on a new LCD monitor.

Also, Ratte (a regular poster on the forums) wrote a really nice monitor driver to allow you a widescreen native 256 colour AGA mode (1280x720) and a HiGFX mode (1024x768).  These are great for people with no graphics card installed, but if you have a CV64-3D installed (how is that connected?) then you're better off with that (much faster and more colours).

I have a CV64-3D card myself.  Really the only way to improve on that is to go for a Mediator PCI bus board and use a Radeon PCI graphics card.  I have a 256MB Radeon card in my A4000 and I run a 32bit Workbench screen at 1920x1080 and it is smooth and responsive (even with my 68040).

Edit:  Karlos must have been typing the same time I was.  :D
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