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- From: jshaffer@pennet.net (Jim Shaffer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Picasso II and A1084S
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 00:31:47 GMT
- Organization: Microserve Information Systems (800)-380-INET
- Distribution: world
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-
- I just bought a Picasso II board and a cable to connect it to
- my Commodore 1084S monitor from Software Hut. I'm having a
- couple of problems I hope someone can help me with.
-
- The first problem is that it's virtually impossible to get
- the vertical hold on the monitor adjusted properly. Unlike
- when connected to my Amiga's 15-kHz output (I forgot to
- mention, my Amiga is a 3000), the slightest touch produces
- an extreme change. Even if I can get it to be still, it's
- not always centered, and if I can get it centered, it will
- eventually start drifting. It doesn't roll fast -- in fact,
- I can get it down to quite slow -- but it's never still
- for long.
-
- This happens even if I have an Amiga screen mode being passed
- through, and even if I connect the monitor directly to the
- 3000's VGA output using the Picasso-to-1084 cable.
-
- Someone on the Picasso mailing list said that I need to have
- the Picasso's horizontal and vertical sync lines xor'd
- together. I would hope that, having spent $35 for a cable,
- it would do this, but I'm not confident. There are no chips
- in the monitor end of the cable, and the Picasso end is a
- molded plug.
-
-
- The second problem is that the supplied 15-kHz configuration
- is for a PAL-frequency display, rather than an NTSC-frequency
- one. I could just subtrace the required number of lines from
- the vertical size in the screenmode prefs, but it's not a very
- satisfying solution. Next I tried the PicassoMode program
- (after tracking down gtlayout.library -- thanks a lot,
- VillageTronic, for neither including it nor checking to
- see whether you've opened it before you use it -- what
- would someone who doesn't know enough to look a binary
- files do?!) and although it lets me get close to NTSC,
- it won't let me set *exactly* the same frequencies for
- some reason. Does anyone have a well-done NTSC configuration
- file they could send me?
-
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Jim
-
-