Equal trade for Scan Doubler / Flicker Fixer

[J-Golden]

A very nice A.Org member from Sweden saved me from trying to hack a DCE Scan Magic into my A4000T.  The opperation would have been risky because of all the tight spaces...

He sent me intrade a MV1200.  It works like a CHARM except in super Hi-Res.  As stated in the instructions, it only displays every other line.

Is this normal of all FF/SD?  Would my internal DCE do the same thing or is this problem specific to the MV1200?

And honestly, is it as a big deal that Super Hi-res is so ugly?

[J-Golden]

 :-o

Ok, way to much info here but what I get from it, I think, is that NO Amiga scan doubler, internal OR external, can do Super Hi-Res justice.  IE they all will drop every other line.

Am I correct in saying this?

[J-Golden]

ChaosLord wrote:
Many years ago when I was first working on making an AGA version of Chaos: Wizard War II, I was going to make the AGA version run in 1280x512 (SuperHiRes) with 256 colors or HAM8.

I was shocked to discover that SuperHiRes was all trashed out on my Flicker Fixer display!  But it looked awesome on my 1084S!  I thought my FlickerFixer was broken!

Then I found out that no known Flicker Fixer supports SuperHiRes.

So I had to scale the game back to 640x512 with 256 colors.

Ah cool, Thanks C Lord, thats exactly what I was looking for..

BTW, what happened to the game you made?

[J-Golden]

patrik wrote:

The majority of aga scandoublers/flickerfixers are very bad and that is not because of them not supporting super hires - which imo is a minor flaw, but they make the aga graphics look like ocs graphics by not supporting the 24-bit aga palette.

/Patrik

Well since there are as many 24-bit FF/SD out there as there are ones that will do Super High-res, I'm just happy as a warm fuzzy kitty with mine!   :kitty:

J-Golden

PS- tried to read the manual you listed, but the only German I kmow is from an episode of "The Simpsons" :

"ACH!!  Ich nine boobies!!!!"