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- From: otterleo@globalxs.nl (otterleo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: VGA monitors...
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 11:09:42 GMT
- Organization: GlobalXS, the Netherlands
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- Mario Miniaci pe96001@sable.ox.ac.uk
- >Hi there!
- >A friend of mine has recently given me a 0.28 SVGA monitor from his
- >PC, and someone else told me that you could make a connector lead from
- >the monitor (15 pin) to Amiga RGB (23 pin). Well, I got the docs off
- >Aminet and made the cable up, but now my Amiga is in for repair (a
- >totally unrelated matter...) and I was just wondering what kind of
- >resolutions you can get out of such a monitor? Using the VGA driver
- >with WB 3.1, do you only get 640x480 (or whatever VGA is)? Or can you
- >get the Amiga to display higher res using this? I have heard of a
- >program called MonE too... has anyone improved on the VGA driver using
- >this program?
-
- The VGA driver only increases the frequency to about 31.44 kHz, so you can use
- a VGA monitor without problems. Well actually you still have problems because
- games use 15.625 kHz and this can't be displayed with the VGA monitor :-(
- The Monitor drivers in devs:monitors make it possible to get a somewhat higher
- resolution, but don't expect too much from it. For the VGA monitor you need
- the Multiscan driver, with MonEd3A (from AmiNet) you can enhance (adjust) the
- picture to your monitor.
-
- If you play a lot of games then your new monitor is worthless for you, but if
- you work with WorkBench a lot then it's great..
-
- >I appreciate any advice you can spare - I hope all the above makes
- >sense...
-
- Of course, I only hope my English isn't too bad...
-
- >Thanx!
-
- >Mario Miniaci (mario.miniaci@spc.ox.ac.uk)
-
-
- ArlĪ
- Dutch Student (studying electronics)
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