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Offline don27dogTopic starter

Problem Voodoo3 and Picasso96
« on: September 28, 2008, 03:19:35 AM »
I finally broke down and bought a new lcd monitor for my 3000T. I hooked it up to the voodoo3 card and played around with picasso96 settings and workbench looks and works great. As soon as I open Opus or some other programs the LCD goes blank. After playing around with it for an hour or so I left the lcd hooked to the voodoo and plugged in my old monitor. Sure enough it boots workbench on the lcd and old monitor is blank but when I open certain programs the lcd goes blank again and programs are showing on the old monitor.. Any ideas how to correct?
Amiga 4000D Cyberstorm PPC 150Mhz, 68060 50 Mhz, 128Meg Ram, IndivisionAGA, Deneb USB Controller, Zorram 256, Os3.9/Os4.0 Classic
Amiga 3000T Warp Engine 4040, Elbox FastATA Controller, Progressive Perpherals ProRam3000 64Meg, Mediator, VoodooIII, Os3.9
 

Offline Vulture

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Re: Problem Voodoo3 and Picasso96
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2008, 08:46:56 AM »
Your programs are set with native screenmodes, ie not the ones Voodoo outputs, but amiga's chipset. You should get a scandoubler and a monitor switch to have both on your lcd monitor and even then you need a scandoubler that syncs to 56hz or more (there's none for A3000 that I know of, there's only Indivision AGA and that's for A1200 only atm) - the minimum frequency of most lcd displays today - in contrast to 50hz that scandoublers do which was enough for crt monitors and some rare to find lcd models. Unless of course it is a LCD TV, so you may connect the rgb port to scart with a proper cable. That is if the tv has a scart input. Or you may keep both monitors connected.

Anyway, that's mostly important for games that bang the hardware directly as you can set your os friendly programs to use Voodoo modes. So, while you have your old monitor connected, setup your programs so they open Voodoo screens. That's not good enough for DPaint obviously as it only accepts native screenmodes.
You can also install a screenmode promoter from aminet (eg Modepro or Newmode) and try to send old programs that won't let you set the mode yourself to Voodoo (eg Lightwave - won't work for DPaint though).

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Offline don27dogTopic starter

Re: Problem Voodoo3 and Picasso96
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2008, 10:14:42 AM »
Ok... That makes sense.. Thank you.. I will play with it some more when I get home from work today..
Amiga 4000D Cyberstorm PPC 150Mhz, 68060 50 Mhz, 128Meg Ram, IndivisionAGA, Deneb USB Controller, Zorram 256, Os3.9/Os4.0 Classic
Amiga 3000T Warp Engine 4040, Elbox FastATA Controller, Progressive Perpherals ProRam3000 64Meg, Mediator, VoodooIII, Os3.9
 

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Re: Problem Voodoo3 and Picasso96
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 11:03:55 AM »
As the A3000 has a scan doubler as standard you just need a monitor switch, you can pick these up from places like Maplins, its just a mechanical switch with two VGA inputs and one output.
As for does your monitor work with the A3K's scan doubler, just plug it in, flip the switch and see. :)