What is this puppy?

[KatManDEW]

Found this in my Miggy archives. it's a 23 pin female to 15 pin female adapter. Apparently a video adapter? It surely doesn't scan double or anything like that, but what is it used for?

[KatManDEW]

Where do you find the 30khz VGAOnly and DblNTSC/DblPAL screenmodes? I don't see them in Pref's...

I'm glad I have a Flicker Fixer and Picasso II in my A2000, and glad that I ordered a Indivision for my A1200, bucause Amiga video is aweful wimpy otherwise... It was my main beef with the Amiga "back in the day"...

[KatManDEW]

countzero wrote:

KatManDEW wrote:
Where do you find the 30khz VGAOnly and DblNTSC/DblPAL screenmodes? I don't see them in Pref's...

check storage, and move them to devs/monitors

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. That worked! (with my A1200 - haven't tried it with my ECS A2000, which has a Flicker Fixer and Picasso II).

Chip mem took a hit (I only have 2 meg chip in my A1200 at the moment, and no fast - yet). I had ~ 1.4 meg chip mem with the 1084 monitor in "NTSC High Res mode" (unlaced), and ~1.1 meg chip mem in 640x480 modes at ~30khz.

Biggest problem I see with this is the boot menu isn't visible (I have no internal DF0 in my A1200 at the moment), and what happens with games with a monitor that won't sync below 30khz?

At any reate, thanks for the info! Pretty cool stuff! Lack of a 640x480 "VGA" mode is a killer on an Amiga without a flicker fixer...

[KatManDEW]

Varthall wrote:

KatManDEW wrote:
Biggest problem I see with this is the boot menu isn't visible (I have no internal DF0 in my A1200 at the moment),

Use this hack to view the boot menu after a reset:

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/bootctrl

Varthall

That's pretty interesting. Thanks for the tip.