Amiga 500 to RGB CRT TV tiny screen!

[kiario]

Hello,
 
I connected my Amiga 500 to a CRT TV and play some games.
 
But the actual game area is so small and is nowhere from filling out the TV screen.
 
There is like almost 1/3 black area below the game screen and a tiny area above.
 
Guess its normal, but is there anything that can be done? I also have SNES and Megadrive connected and they fill the whole screen.
 
Perhaps mod Amiga to 60Hz but will my favorite game Captive run in that mode?

[Dr.Bongo]

Not on an old CRT no, with modern screens you can stretch the picture. But, that's the way it was, so pretend that it's 1992 and enjoy it

[AmmoJammo]

sit closer

[XDelusion]

Overscan prefs?!?

[kiario]

Overscan works with games? Workbench is ok but games that start directly have tiny screen

[Jope]

Well what kind of tiny is it? NTSC picture on a PAL screen tiny, which takes up about three quarters of the vertical area, or is the image somehow squashed in some other way?

A very large amount of games only use the NTSC screen area.

Stick in your workbench 1.3 disk and look at the size of the initial CLI window that pops up. That is what an NTSC sized picture looks like on a PAL screen.

[Thorham]

Not on an old CRT no

Nonsense. 1084 can do it. In fact, with those old monitors, you can easily stretch 200p modes on PAL to use the whole screen.

[kiario]

Heya folks,
 
Finally after two evenings got my pc and amiga connected and after much trial and error i finally got degrader running and 60Hz in games.
 
I am happy, much better size of screen now in games.
 
Thanks all for the help.

[Lurch]

Even with the indi aga not all games fill the screen well.

Wish Jen's would release the config tool :-)

[Amiga_Nut]

Nonsense. 1084 can do it. In fact, with those old monitors, you can easily stretch 200p modes on PAL to use the whole screen.

Indeed, this is why nobody knew the Atari 520ST had C64 style borders all around until the  520STM 3 months later was plugged into TVs. Most 80s monitors had horizontal or vertical adjustment for placement and zoom controls, most TVs have variable resistors inside on the PCB.