CyberVision64 connections

[Mauro73]

Hi,

here is one stupid question, but I really would know the answer  :-)

Which is the best way to connect monitors to my CV64?

I mean: there are two vga ports on the CV64 and a standard Amiga video port on the A4000 motherboard and I don't want to do some stupid thing that may damage the hardware.

Now I've connected the Amiga video out to the left (looking the backside of the A4000) CV64 vga port (using the amiga/vga adapter) and a Commodore 1942 to the right CV64 vga port.

Is that insane?

Thank you for any kind of help

Mauro

[amigakit]

The best option is to use a monitor switch to change between AGA and the Cybervision:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=565

[doctorq]

Ehh, use a monitor switcher, when the CV64 has one build in??

The connector on the CV64 that is closer to the Zorro ports are video in, the one far away from the Zorro ports is video out. Loop the Amiga video out from the motherboard to video in on the CV64, and you only need to have one monitor.

Seems like you have it correctly set up already.

[Mauro73]

amigakit wrote:
The best option is to use a monitor switch to change between AGA and the Cybervision:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=565

But doesn't the CV64 already have an internal automatic switch?

Isn't possibole to connect a monitor to the first vga port and another monitor to the second vga port leaving the standard a4000 video out disconnected?

I beg your pardon for my ignorance but it's just to see things as clear as possible

Mauro

[Mauro73]

doctorq wrote:
Ehh, use a monitor switcher, when the CV64 has one build in??

The connector on the CV64 that is closer to the Zorro ports are video in, the one far away from the Zorro ports is video out. Loop the Amiga video out from the motherboard to video in on the CV64, and you only need to have one monitor.

Seems like you have it correctly set up already.

mmmhh I see.

But so I have to own a monitor capable to manage 15Khz anyway.

I've done exactly whato you told me: connected amiga video out to the port near the a4000 doughterboard and the 1942 to the port far from the zorro solts.

Mauro

[doctorq]

But so I have to own a monitor capable to manage 15Khz anyway.

Yes, either that or get a scandoubler. Adding a graphics card doesn't mean that everything is displayed through the graphics card.

[Mauro73]

doctorq wrote:
Yes, either that or get a scandoubler. Adding a graphics card doesn't mean that everything is displayed through the graphics card.

Getting a scandoubler seems to be quite impossible at a human price nowday.

I know that a graphic card doesn't mean that everything is displayed through it.

So I thought that having the chance to connect two monitors, through a switch, like it has been suggested, I'd have been solve the issue: a monitor with 15Khz capability and another more standard vga monitor.

Mauro

[doctorq]

So I thought that having the chance to connect two monitors, through a switch, like it has been suggested, I'd have been solve the issue: a monitor with 15Khz capability and another more standard vga monitor.

IMHO it would be a real shame not to use one of the best features the CV64 has, but each to their own :-)

[Mauro73]

doctorq wrote:

IMHO it would be a real shame not to use one of the best features the CV64 has, but each to their own :-)

I agree with you and that's the reason I'm using only the 1942 now.

But is there a bigger monitor capable to manage 15Khz that I can buy anywhere?

The monitor attached to my PC is a really good one (Samsung SyncMaster 245B, 24" lcd full hd display) but it can't go near 15Khz.

Mauro

[davideo]

This is probably not the answer to your question but it's my twopence worth anyway  ;-)

I've got a Cyber card but only one monitor connection on it.

What I've got is a monitor/TV that I've got the standard Miggy output connected up through the standard monitor out through a scart lead into the video and audio in.

I've got the Cyber output connected to the monitor in and bridged the audio in just in case it's required.

I also use ModePro (from Aminet) it promotes all legally written software to use the Cyber output.

Any that don't work (mostly games) that way I just press a switch on the monitor to switch over to the other input.

Dave G  8-)

[Mauro73]

Thank you Dave,

I think this is the most suitable solution, may be I'll buy such a monitor/tv then.  :-)

Mauro