Heads up for people in the UK looking for a flat screen for their Amiga

[JaXanim]

You're right, I miss the demos. Games? I was always useless...spent too much time learning LightWave to bother with games. But remember I still have the Microvitec should I fancy getting behind the wheel of the Lotus Turbo again..

Yep, the Picasso 4 is Fabulous and worth all of £150 today.  Today that is......

Cheers,  JaX

[Hyperspeed]

Are there websites that have the Lightwave models for the Babylon 5 shows, or perhaps Robocop TV series?

As for displays, what's the score when it comes to Amigas and HDTV/Widescreen/Plasmas?

[Oliver]

Hyperspeed wrote:
Are there websites that have the Lightwave models for the Babylon 5 shows, or perhaps Robocop TV series?

I saw a sight with models for Bab5 some time ago, but haven't seen anything available for a while now.

Personally, I would love to have a PIV.  Seems to be the best option for Amiga video cards.  I'm also curious about how good the mediator/voodoo option is.  I've read that promoted screens can be really slow.  Is that much of an issue?  Does it work well with WHDLoad games?

-Oli

[Kinster]

I'll definately check out the ASDA one but 15" isn't that big is it...

Bigger than you may expect.  My old (most?) 17" CRT had a viewable screen area of 15.1".  LCD screen measurements generally refer to the viewable area so the actual visible screen would be almost the same as that of a 17" CRT.

[JaXanim]

Yes screen promotion through Voodoo5/TFT is relatively slow, but then the Amiga is relatively slow anyway. Wouldn't suit gamers even if it worked. Don't know anything about the other stuff.

Babylon 5 Models for LightWave 3D. And another two seconds Googling got a Robocop model, but you have to buy that one. You can find 'em if you look for 'em.
Cheers, JaX

[motorollin]

I've just posted some pics of the screen. They're not approved yet, but keep an eye on my album if you want to see them.

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moto

[Oliver]

...  My old (most?) 17" CRT had a viewable screen area of 15.1".  LCD screen measurements generally refer to the viewable area so the actual visible screen would be almost the same as that of a 17" CRT.

My 17" monitor has 16" viewable.  I think 15.1" viewable is a bit of a rip for a 17" monitor.  I'm still interested in the unit you described as an Amiga monitor though.

[nasty]

Album Link

Those images look really good. But i'm waiting on someone to tell you to buy cable ties :-), theres always someone b*tching about untidy cables :lol:  

[motorollin]

Haha, my other half cable ties everything to death. Looks very neat and tidy but you should hear the language that comes out of his mouth when he has to undo it all to move something :lol: That's why I don't cable tie things until I have them set up just right and know for sure I'm not moving anything.

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moto

[Oliver]

There's also a number of options for temporary ties.  Anyway, one can exacerbate noise problems by tying signal lines together, or to power lines.

[patrik]

@JaXanim:

1120x832? Isnt your TFTs native resolution 1280x1024 at 60Hz, which your voodoo should have no problem displaying?


/Patrik

[motorollin]

Oliver wrote:
There's also a number of options for temporary ties.

Yeah but I'm too lazy :roll:

Oliver wrote:
Anyway, one can exacerbate noise problems by tying signal lines together, or to power lines.

That's good enough for me - no cable ties today! :-P

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moto

[Tripitaka]

NEC 1802 multisync......mmmmm.  :-D

[JaXanim]

@patrik

The Voodoo outputs 1280x1024 at 91Hz which is too fast, but NewMode appears capable of fixing this as well as the higher resolutions. I say appears to 'cos I've just lost output from the TFT by failing to save the NewMode settings, Doh! Out with the Microvitek damn and frig!!

JaX

[Hyperspeed]

This has appeared on radar:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5862569568

1024x768 too...

[Hyperspeed]

I just went to ASDA's UK website to see if I could find one of these DLCD1501s. I got a bad vibe when loading the web page and it just came up grey. After enabling javascript I managed to view some childrens CDs and then was told:

"YOUR COMPUTER IS TOO DAMN OLD, SOD OFF!"

It was phrased "Please download a new browser, you can only use IE 4 and above" or something dumb like that. I was using IBrowse2.3 with Javascript, SSL and everything. ASDA is the only website to give me grief to date on IBrowse.

http://www.asda.com/asda_shop/sys/web_sys01_b_initialise.jsp

I might have to check my local store, maybe give them a piece of my mind!

:-D