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Offline RetroAmigaMan

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Re: flicker fixer issues
« on: December 02, 2011, 01:38:12 PM »
I'm so glad I didn't buy that - I was really tempted until I realised I can buy the same hardware for $35, uncased.  I might buy that.

I bought another so-called scandoubler off eBay a month ago, and it's so terrible it's going back:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/15Khz-RGB-RGsB-RGBS-VGA-XGA-Converter-Scaler-/350497862833?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item519b4cf4b1

It's advertised as crystal clear conversion for a lot of systems including Amiga, but it truly is a pile of crap.  Pronounced vertical lines, artifacts, and no hardware adjustment either.  Expensive to post back to the US too - $30.  The unit is apparently set for EGA only, according to the technical people at the company in California.  Any kind of search for "Amiga VGA" on eBay will bring up their crappy product.  It's blatent misrepresentation.
I fell in love with the Amiga in 1985 when I first saw an A1000 demonstrated.

Amigas:

A1000 + 2.5Mb External RAM

A1200 + 030 accelerator + 16Mb RAM + 4Gb Compact Flash drive

A600 - 2MB ChipRAM


Other machines:

Acorn:

BBC Model B 32K (running off flash hard drive)
BBC Model B+ 64K
BBC Master
BBC Master Compact
Acorn Electron
Acorn Archimedes A310
Acorn A7000+ 16Mb (running off compact flash drive)

Atari STFM 512
Sinclair Spectrum +
Sinclair ZX81
Oric Atmos
Dragon 32
Texas TI99/4A