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Amiga and Laptop LCD Screen?
« on: May 12, 2007, 05:35:11 PM »
ive had the good fortune to be given 3 dell latitude cp laptops. I've heard that it's possible to hack these to work with an amiga....
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Re: Amiga and Laptop LCD Screen?
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2007, 07:58:25 AM »
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Re: Amiga and Laptop LCD Screen?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2007, 09:09:36 AM »
A scandoubler / deinterlacer I would expect.
 

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Re: Amiga and Laptop LCD Screen?
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2007, 09:58:09 AM »
1. First thing that strikes me, is that laptop LCDs almost never have standard VGA connectors.  They're most likely hardwired directly to the graphics card.

2. I doubt that they will go as low as 15KHz.  I did a couple of searches, and all I found was 31KHz on Dell laptops, which means that you (at least theoreticall) can use DblPAL/DblNTSC.

3. Tip: Ask those you heard the rumour from :)
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Re: Amiga and Laptop LCD Screen?
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2007, 01:47:29 PM »
You will need to make some sort of  connector interface;the lcd isn't hardwired but usually connected to the laptop motherboard video by a flexible flat fragile looking printed circuit .

 There is(was) a video processor being sold that would take various kinds of composite,s-video,and 15 pin rgb and out those to 15 rgb.The Viewsonic N4 which cost me about $100 two years ago.

 Or find one of the lcd TVs with composite inputs;the discount store in my little town has one for $159.15 inch.

 Good luck.