Using Atari SC1224 with Amiga

[thedocbwarren]

I've seen posts on this, but oh so vague.  Anyone tried this or made a cable that works.  better still, have anyone tried any pre-made cable/adapters that work?

I'm thinking of trying a hack of the Atari VGA cable in combination with the Amiga vga adapter to bridge the SC1224 13poin side to VGA then to the Amiga 23 pin.

Ideas?

[drwho]

Have you seen this?: http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/176261-is-the-atari-sc1224-monitor-compatible-with-any-other-computer/

It looks like others have/are trying to do this with that monitor with mixed results. There is a dude towards the end of a post who has it hooked to his A600, might be worth contacting him.

[thedocbwarren]

I did see that thread.  Maybe I'll get in touch with him.  Seems like it should be possible.  Obviously it's probably as limited as using a 1084 with the Amiga.  Thing is, I own the sc1224 and it's really sharp and could work well with the Amiga till the new Indivision AGA MKII is out.

I really need to find a decent solution to this.  I did manage to get one of my old LCDs to work, but I need the thing for my Mac.  And it's was not a nice display at that.

[Heiroglyph]

I had one years and years ago on my A500 after the ST died.

If I remember correctly, I just wired it up to an Amiga 23pin connector based on the two different pinouts, R to R, G to G, etc.

[thedocbwarren]

I believe it's probably that simple.  The scan rates are the same and the low-res and 'high' res (medium for Atari) are identical.  I think super high res should also work.

I was able to coble a bunch of adapters together and got a weak and dark picture so I think it's a matter of getting the config right.

[Zac67]

It's a standard 15 kHz RGB monitor with compatible (separate) sync - the problem is a purely electrical one. SuperHires will work but give no decent results due to dot pitch limitations.

[thedocbwarren]

True, I have the JVC version with the sharpest screen so 640 pixels is very sharp.  I assume super high res will look like a antialiased medium resolution.

I'll update with my results when my new cable gets in.

[Zac67]

With AGA you can use SuperHires to generate better color accuracy for HAM8 but apart from that it's probably pretty useless with a 14" 15 kHz monitor.

[AmiRuLeZ]

I just used this kind of wire to connect Atari SC1224 monitor with my Amiga 500, 600.