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Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

A2024 The Hedley Hi-res Amiga monitor flicker free
« on: March 01, 2018, 05:39:54 PM »
I take no credit for this video, just saw it posted over on one of the other Amiga forums and wanted to share a link here.  It's pretty neat!  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwxmgTPcRGM
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Offline AmigaHope

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Re: A2024 The Hedley Hi-res Amiga monitor flicker free
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2018, 06:25:07 PM »
Funny thing is the guy didn't actually try the A2024 modes at all, he just ran regular PAL modes (the A2024 has a built-in framebuffer that reassembles the interlaced input and displays it as progressive scan).

Its big killer feature, though, was that it supported other resolutions like 1024x800 and 1024x1024 by using a DCTV/HAM-E/Graffiti-style magic cookie to cause it to interpret 4-bit pixels differently. The difference is that while those other adapters combined two 4-bit pixels into one higher-color 8-bit pixel to give you more colors at lower resolution, the A2024 takes a 4-bit RGBI pixel and converts it into two 2-bit greyscale pixels to give you fewer colors at higher resolution (and does it in an odd way at that, populating its framebuffer in a way that's not linear to the source signal -- it actually samples multiple frames and combines them into a 10Hz or 15Hz effective refresh rate!)
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Re: A2024 The Hedley Hi-res Amiga monitor flicker free
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2018, 11:30:04 PM »
Total waste unbox that thing just to see it operate as a grey-scale flicker-fixer.

Probably never loaded the monitor files because the A2024 specific modes were not even listed...
 

Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

Re: A2024 The Hedley Hi-res Amiga monitor flicker free
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2018, 02:05:26 AM »
AFAIR the A2024-specific modes only worked under a custom version of 1.3, unless I'm remembering incorrectly?
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Re: A2024 The Hedley Hi-res Amiga monitor flicker free
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2018, 06:10:48 AM »
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;836799
AFAIR the A2024-specific modes only worked under a custom version of 1.3, unless I'm remembering incorrectly?

It was first made working with a custom 1.3, that is right, but all kickstart releases from v37 on shipped a special monitor driver for it, so it could be used by all later versions as well.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: A2024 The Hedley Hi-res Amiga monitor flicker free
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2018, 12:21:45 PM »
there is a comment on the video pointing out he didn't try out the hires modes and he said he would.