Finally ordered my Indivision AGA 1200 MK.

[paul1981]

Basically to speed up Nova's port of BOOM, and to make the screen easy on the eyes as I work within OctaMED Sound Studio.

I will be using a VGA converter on this as non of my monitors have the correct jack, but hopefully all will work well as we wait on the long awaited core update.

So what has been ya'll's experience with these things? Are you happy, are you sad, are you mad?

Good question. I've been thinking of getting one of those for myself.

[paul1981]

I have a Philips 107P VGA CRT monitor. HighGfx works fine and looks great for Workbench and OctaMED (gfx artifacts disappear after 5 minutes being powered on). I'm not a gamer so I couldn't give a monkeys about PAL being shifted to the right etc. I have noticed though that with SuperGfx OctaMEDs timing being related to vertical scan goes a bit out of tune. With HighGfx it is fine. I tried it with a Hanng 19" DVI and it worked but it looked too sharp and was unforgiving so I am happy with my CRT.

I really would like an Indivision AGA MkII, but if there's artifacts then that would definitely put me off buying one. Did the MkI have artifacts?

[paul1981]

The banding on the VGA is caused by a difference in the pixel clock on the monitor vs the Indivision... it does not happen on all monitors or even all modes... the new firmware will fix that... Some people have reported that changing the pixel clock in their monitor setup reduced the effect... Did not seem to help on the monitor I have the banding issue on.

The artifacts are not caused by the Indivision. They are a bug in the hardware and if you have them, you'll get them in Multisync mode even without the Indivision. If anything, with the Indivision you can just run interlace mode if you don't feel like fixing the hardware. If you don't fix the motherboard, you'll also have the same artifacts in highgfx and the other new modes...

Thanks for the info. My motherboard revisions are 1A and 1D3. Does that mean I won't get artifacts? Or are the artifacts a seperate issue to the timing fix issue?