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Greetings everyone
« on: January 06, 2012, 08:39:37 PM »
Howdy from just north of Dallas in the great state of Texas! I am a new poster to these forums, but I have been reading them for years.
A little history: my first usable computer was a C64 in the mid to late 80's, which I loved, and was my gateway drug into the wonderful world of Amiga.
I have an A500, sadly mostly nonfunctional these days, and a towerized A1200 which I have been working on off and on for the last 15 years.
I love computers in general, but the Amiga always was my favorite.  
Looking forward to conversing with fellow Amiga enthusiasts :)
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2012, 08:42:12 PM »
Welcome!
 

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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2012, 10:22:22 PM »
Thank you Duce :)
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2012, 10:36:42 PM »
Welcome.  I used to do some oilfield work around Denton.

Any plans on what you want to do with your A1200 tower?  I have 2 A1200s in tower cases and 1 still in the wedge.  I'd suggest an Indivision SDFF and a Subway USB card if you haven't already got them.  :)
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2012, 10:50:49 PM »
Welcome aboard.
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2012, 10:58:08 PM »
Welcome!

I am in the killeen, fort hood surrounding area here.
just ask if you need some amiga help and we can fix you up.

Mech
 

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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2012, 10:58:39 PM »
Hi Darrin, as a matter of fact, I live in Denton.  
I am just starting to get back into the world of Amiga, so I welcome all suggestions for improving the A1200.  I definitely have the Subway USB on my wishlist. I'm not familiar with the Indivision SDFF, I take it that's a graphics card?  I currently have a Cybervision 64/3d MKII, but like to see what would be a better option.
edit: I must be half asleep.  SDFF = scandoubler flicker fixer. lol glad to see my noob hat still fits
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A1200 ACA 1231, Indivision MK2 AGA
AT 4000T, missing cpu card, working condition unknown
A500 with scant signs of life
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2012, 11:00:31 PM »
Thanks Karlos :)
Howdy to a fellow Texas denizen, Mech :)
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AT 4000T, missing cpu card, working condition unknown
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2012, 11:07:07 PM »
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Hi Darrin, as a matter of fact, I live in Denton.

Not quite the Denton near where I live, I suspect. Unless you mean "near" as in in the same hemisphere.

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I am just starting to get back into the world of Amiga, so I welcome all suggestions for improving the A1200.  I definitely have the Subway USB on my wishlist. I'm not familiar with the Indivision SDFF, I take it that's a graphics card?  I currently have a Cybervision 64/3d MKII, but like to see what would be a better option.

The Indivision is not a graphics card (the ECS version does have some cool tricks though), it's a scandoubler/flickerfixer that allows you to achieve higher resolutions without flickering on the native chipset. You can use it to get flicker-free 1024x768 resolutions out of your AGA chipset, for example. However, you are still limited by the capabilities of AGA in terms of performance and colour depth. A graphics card is still the only option if you wanted, say a 1024x768 (or higher) high/true-colour display.
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2012, 11:14:33 PM »
My brain belatedly informed me what SDFF stood for :)  I had a scandoubler, before I got the Cybervison.  The name of it escapes me though, that was a good 10 years or so ago. Thanks for setting me straight anyway :)
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A1200 ACA 1231, Indivision MK2 AGA
AT 4000T, missing cpu card, working condition unknown
A500 with scant signs of life
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2012, 11:16:51 PM »
Quote from: anachronicus;674683
Hi Darrin, as a matter of fact, I live in Denton.  
I am just starting to get back into the world of Amiga, so I welcome all suggestions for improving the A1200.  I definitely have the Subway USB on my wishlist. I'm not familiar with the Indivision SDFF, I take it that's a graphics card?  I currently have a Cybervision 64/3d MKII, but like to see what would be a better option.


Hi there.

The Indivision is a scan doubler/flicker fixer for the native modes and also promotes the PAL screens to 60Hz so you'll have no trouble putting any native display on a new LCD monitor.

Also, Ratte (a regular poster on the forums) wrote a really nice monitor driver to allow you a widescreen native 256 colour AGA mode (1280x720) and a HiGFX mode (1024x768).  These are great for people with no graphics card installed, but if you have a CV64-3D installed (how is that connected?) then you're better off with that (much faster and more colours).

I have a CV64-3D card myself.  Really the only way to improve on that is to go for a Mediator PCI bus board and use a Radeon PCI graphics card.  I have a 256MB Radeon card in my A4000 and I run a 32bit Workbench screen at 1920x1080 and it is smooth and responsive (even with my 68040).

Edit:  Karlos must have been typing the same time I was.  :D
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2012, 11:36:07 PM »
My Cybervision is plugged into a zorro 3 slot of the ZIV baseboard. I hope to get a mediator pci  at some point, available funds allowing. :)
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A1200 ACA 1231, Indivision MK2 AGA
AT 4000T, missing cpu card, working condition unknown
A500 with scant signs of life
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2012, 11:40:54 PM »
Welcome!!! :)

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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2012, 12:50:30 AM »
Thanks :)
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A1200 ACA 1231, Indivision MK2 AGA
AT 4000T, missing cpu card, working condition unknown
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Re: Greetings everyone
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2012, 02:11:00 AM »
Have I seen you floating around EAB and AW? You look familiar lol.