Lawn sale find

[Will-i-am]

Yesterday we were traveling far afield and came upon a lawn sale, one of those more or less permanent lawn sales, and they had some $200 PCs and a pile of HDs, speakers and monitors. I found a fairly nice looking NEC2A monitor and since I remembered seeing that model on a list somewhere about Amiga compatible monitors, and since I had an NEC3D that works well, I bought it for $14. It did not work very well on the A2000 running OS 2.1, but the Beast (A4000T) worked fine with it, at least as far as WB goes. I haven't booted any games yet, but my WB on the Beast is in productivity mode and it's pretty crisp for an antique monitor. $14 is not a bad price....

[Thomas]

Productivity mode works with every PC monitior, even modern ones, probably even flatscreens. But if the A2000 didn't work, normal PAL or NTSC modes won't work on the A4000, too. However, give it a try :-)

Bye,
Thomas

[amigadave]

I believe the NEC 2A is more of a dual sync than a true multi-sync monitor and the one you found may have lost its ability to switch to the lower 15kHz scan rate.  I have one around here somewhere and remember when I last used it years ago, that it makes a lot of noise when it switches from 15 to 31kHz and back.  It made me think it was going to blow up, or just quit working at any moment.  Try it again after it is warmed up or just give it a good kick!  Afterall, you did say it only cost you $14  :-D

[c64_d0c]

throw it out before it starts a fire...
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AlexaShy

[Will-i-am]

Okay, the Beast likes it pretty good and until my Picasso arrives It'll have to use it. I do now recall that the 2A was a dual-sync monitor, but except for a strange deal with Personal Paint all the progs I tried came up clear and clean, even PageRender, which often has troubles with various screen modes. Funny thing, Personal Paint did the same thing that all the progs did on the A2000: give me a screen of semi-transparent twin Workbenches overlapping by 1/2 and a ghostly cursor. Difficult to quit out without trying various keyboard equivlants. The screen also does that black edge thing the 3D does, about 1" of black either side and no apparent way to expand the Workbench horizontally. Still, it beats unplugging the monitor and replugging it to the next Amiga I want to use. Nice thing about Amiga.org, BTW, is that I don't feel obsessive about having 5 Amigas. Some of you folks have even more!

[Dr_Righteous]

Well, if you count two dead A1200 boards, I have 5 miggys. Not so weird. A4000D, A2000HD, A500, and the two A1200 DOAs. Sadly, my PC and PC parts collection is far more vast.