Amiga 500 PAL display on LCD?

[bratek]

Hi,

Is it possible to somehow have Amiga 500 push video to an LCD? I have a VGA LCD monitor, and I'd like to use this as video output instead of the Amiga monitor. Is there a way to make this happen?
I would appreciate a detailed answer - the last time I used Amiga was 20 years ago. I was getting Jim Power killed.
Cheers,

Bratek

[McVenco]

It's possible, but you will have to use a scandoubler between your Amiga and the monitor.

Check www.amigakit.com, they sell them.

EDIT: at least, I thought so. I can't find it on their site right now.?

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I just bought one from them yesterday, although I can't find a link to the product anymore - maybe I got their last one?

Unfortunately it's also an A1200/A4000 only product.

You might be able to get a Toastscan external adapter from Software Hut, assuming you can actually contact them.

Also bear in mind a scandoubler/flickerfixer won't adjust the 50Hz PAL rate, which many LCDs apparently can't sync to, so you'd probably have to force your Amiga into NTSC mode.

[bratek]

Sorry, I don't know much about Amiga hardware: Does that mean that Amiga with NTSC video output (I'm assuming this is hardwired into the Amiga box?) vs PAL output would have better chances of working with the adapter (scan doubler/flicker fixer)? I haven't bought the Amiga box yet, I'm just trying to plan the best solution for now. So any info on the best approach for using an LCD with Amiga (maybe either PAL or NTSC) would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,

Bratek

[uncleted]

PAL is 50Hz - the majority of LCD monitors advertise syncing down to 56Hz.  You might get lucky and your LCD will sync that low, but it's more than likely that it won't.  There are a few LCDs that will do 50Hz, often LCD TVs if you're in a PAL region.

Depending on your chipset and Kickstart ROM, you can boot into NTSC through software.  There are also hardware mods possible.

NTSC brings problems of its own, given most games were made for PAL, also some games AFAIK will force PAL by themselves.  Since it's 60Hz though, it should display fine on LCD monitors.