ICD Flicker Free 2

[hamtronix]

Hi-

I got the DMS driver disk. I searched google for the manual and got no luck. I even emailed support at support@ICD.com and *gasp* it was returned as nondeliverable...

 Does anyone have a link or paper version of the ICD Flicker Free 2 manual?

[Terse]

I used to have one, but don't think I do any longer.  Why do you need it?  There is a pot you can dial to lock in the picture one time, then you never touch it again.  Does FFVII do anything other than this?  What does the disk do?

[hamtronix]

I just bought the hardware. I would like to know what the jumpers do on the board and the pot. I just like having a manual with my hardware, call me crazy. It lets me sleep better at night. And I cant get it to work with my monitor right now so I am trying to figure out why.

The driver disk has its own little screen mode program and a couple of test pics, thats it.

[Damion]

You may want to try another monitor for test... the FFV is a bit picky that way.

cheers

[murple]

Dont see one online anywhere... but if you're getting no display at all, I dont think its likely to be a jumper setting since I assume the jumpers were set by the last owner to work on a VGA monitor. Unless your monitor (or theirs) is very unusual, you should get SOME display even if its not perfect.

What kind of monitor do you have? What frequencies and resolutions does it support? Do you have another monitor you can test on?

What video mode do you have your Amiga set to, and what monitors do you have installed in your devs?

For what its worth the BBoAH says this:

Page 15, Table 1 "VGA To Flicker Free Video 2 adapter pin assignments"

13 - Horizontal Sync - 4
14 - Vertical Sync - 5

I assume thats on the VGA port though, not the board. The picture of the board they have has one jumper marked Bypass which I assume disables the board, and something marked clip which I suspect is a connector for something rather than a jumper.

[Tyball]

I have the manual right here, but no scanner. The jumper settings are described as follows:

"For an older Denise, close the Denise jumper and the CLIP jumper. For an ECS Denise, open both these jumpers."

There is no troubleshooting section, but there is an erratum to the manual included. It reads as follows:

"The jumper labeled CLIP [...] works the opposite way it is described [in the manual]. When the jumper is open, clipping occurs so that you get a clean display with the older Denise. When the jumper is closed, clipping is disabled so that you get a little extra space with the new Denise.
The jumper labeled Denise [...] has been changed to a variable resistor that may need to be adjusted for different Denise chips."

I have had some problems with a badly seated ffv and/or Denise chip.

Hope this helps...

Also, the bypass switch disables the ffv2 so you can display SuperHiRes through the ffv2 port, but of course the monitor must be capable of a 15.75 KHz horizontal scan rate.

[Terse]

hamtronix wrote:
I just bought the hardware. I would like to know what the jumpers do on the board and the pot. I just like having a manual with my hardware, call me crazy. It lets me sleep better at night. And I cant get it to work with my monitor right now so I am trying to figure out why.

The driver disk has its own little screen mode program and a couple of test pics, thats it.

Thanks for the info.

[hamtronix]

I have had some problems with a badly seated ffv and/or Denise chip.

Thanks for the info. I was a little worried about the seating of the device since I had to bend a capacitor (? looks like a small blue beer can) to the right to get it to fit. That in itself seemed strange to me but... In any case when I use the screen changing program on the driver disk and change the Hz it skews my genlock TV output so I figure that means everything is hunky dory. This only leaves the actual VGA out cable as wrong or my cable to the monitor or the monitor itself.

[murple]

Or the 9 to 15 pin converter... youve got one of those too, no?

Have you asked the previous owner?

[hamtronix]

Quick question:

With the FF/SD installed and presumably working should I see any flicker at all in interlace mode with output from my genlock card?

I am using the genlock for color composite out. I hooked up to a tv and I noticed flicker this seems odd to me. But it could be 'regular'. There is a pot on the FF. I wonder if I should fiddle with it.

[murple]

Unless your flicker fixer is somehow designed to work on composite as well, I suspect you will have flicker on that output. Every flicker fixer I've seen gives out either RGB or VGA.

[hamtronix]

Thanks for info I was wondering about that.  There seems to be an enormous dearth of information of FF/SD ...