Which 50Hz monitor ?

[espskog]

You can use it to move the visible area around the screen to a point where you should be able to adjust the V&H holds on the TV.

It is very easy to use overscan to make a screen size bigger than your TV can adjust to.  The question is to the stardard PAL screen modes fit BEFORE using overscan?  They should and then you use overscan to maximise them withing the confines of your TV's display.

Yes, but the overscan settings you apply is under workbench environment. If you boot a game/demo off a adf file, then it will just use "ordinary" PAL setting like it is within the early startup sequence menu.  Am I right ?

So -- to be sure that things work 100% with the LCD, then I need a monitor which can show the whole screen even before a WB is loaded. So I think I will try to order one and ...well..just see what happens


*UPDATE*

So, I found this one "http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=604613" and I figured it will cover my needs as it is quite cheap, looks nice and has all the inputs needed + internal PSU.


Espen

[Darrin]

Cool. I found a dealer for Viewsonic (well..many actually) but I do not wanna order a model which won't work So what is the model on yours ? I know it's probably off the market already...but, as a reference.

I have 2 of these:
Viewsonic VA2223wm 21.5in 1920x1080 5ms DVI SPK

Like you say, discontinued now but there are lots of newer models.  Just check the specs.  

[Darrin]

Yes, but the overscan settings you apply is under workbench environment. If you boot a game/demo off a adf file, then it will just use "ordinary" PAL setting like it is within the early startup sequence menu.  Am I right ?

So -- to be sure that things work 100% with the LCD, then I need a monitor which can show the whole screen even before a WB is loaded. So I think I will try to order one and ...well..just see what happens


Espen

What I do to set up a new monitor is to load a PAL floppy based game, use the H&V holds on the TC to center the display, then I boot to workbench and use overscan to stretch that screen mode to cover the largest area and use the H&V size on the TV to make sure it fills the screen.

You will probably have to adjust each different screen mode if the monitor remembers the different H&V settings for each mode.

[zipper]

My BenQ  is a FP222w, some years old. It starts at 320x400@60Hz and does 640x480 fine; 640x400 leaves black bars up and down. As I'm mostly using RTG modes my experience from native modes is wanting but my PicassoIV flifi 31 kHz output works quite well.

[espskog]

I will use it for RTG modes on WB if they Replay board along with the Daughterboard offers RTG -- but until that, I will use my Replay as a "gaming" setup so the screen has to offer 50Hz compatibility aswell.

[boing4000]

I made best experience with Samsung Syncmaster LCD monitor.
Those mostly support 50Hz refresh rate via analog VGA.