Can you run dual monitors on Amiga

[cv643d]

Can you run dual monitor setup on the Amiga like on Windows if you have more than one Zorro graphics board?

[Lemmink]

Of course you can, but not quite like you know it from Windows. You can't spread out the WB over two screens, but you can run Program A in screenmode sayCVision800x600 and Programm B in screenmode PicassoIV1024x768 at the same time.

Someone even wrote a little arrexscript that automatically gimes an [Amiga]+m when you reach the screenborder. Must be on Aminet

[odin]

Will both screens still be updated? Or only the active screen?

I know the developers of Explorer 2260 had an idea for the B/CVisionPPC, they'd display a radar screen or something on the AGA output and the main play screen on the B/CVis. Shame that game bled to oblivion :/.

[cv643d]

How do you assign what program to end up on screen a or screen b?

[Lemmink]

Haven't tried it myself, but I don't know why it shouldn't. I belive you have to disable the monitorswitcher in CGX (NOPASSTHROUGH=1) if you want to use AGA as well.

[Lemmink]

How do you assign what program to end up on screen a or screen b?

What do you mean by that ? The screemode (and therefore the graphicscard it is displayed on) of you WB is set in prefs / screenmodes. Any Programm that opens a custom screen will have it's own prefs where you can set the desired screenmode, so there you select a screenmode from the other graphicscard.

[darksun9210]

yes you can, and yes they will update in real time. just remember to switch off the pass through option.

but as said before, you can't spead workbench over multiple monitors.

however, if you are running one of the mac emulators, you could spead the mac desktop over as many monitors as you liked. even aga/gfx combo. had it playing back .mov's in 'widescreen' across aga and a cvppc. kind of watchable as the updates were out of sync, but an interesting exersize anyway.

back when i had an A4000T, CSPPC, CVPPC, CV64/3D, Vlab Y/C, ardaine ethernet, AD516, Digital Broadcaster32. stack of ram, stack of ultra scsi hardrives.
sold the lot for 800 GBP. stupid stupid stupid. someone hit me. :lol:

[Zac67]

cv643d wrote:
Can you run dual monitor setup on the Amiga like on Windows if you have more than one Zorro graphics board?

Actually I did that back in '93 when I bought my graphics board - but I had three monitors attached: my old 15" Mitsubishi on the flickerfixer, my then new ADI 17" on the Merlin and an A2024 on the DB-23 connector.
Obviously the A2024 could not be independantly refreshed, but I built something very weird with different screen modes, so that I could use the ECS workbench and the Merlin while the A2024 display remained static (Shapeshifter display) and could be updated manually. I tried to repeat this two years ago to show off how cool the Amiga was ten years previously, but I couldn't do it any more...  ;-)

[Kronos]

@Lemmink

Really ??

Cos I really searched and searched before I did :
http://www.skleinheinrich.homepage.t-online.de/SpringMaus.lha

[Dr_Righteous]

Is anyone using a dual input monitor, one attached to a SD/FF, the other to their RTG board? I always thought that'd be neat.