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- On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Doug Smith wrote:
-
- > Chris Appleton wrote in demon.tech.amiga about "Re: SVGA Monitor connection
- > to an Amiga???":
- > > This had me going for *ages*. I got a multisync, and it needed a VGA
- > > adaptor to work. I tried making them, but I'm crap at soldering and
- > > I kept getting rotten signals. So i bought one that worked fine. I opened
- > > it up and lo and behold there was nothing in there at all, no logic,
- > > capacitors or anything.
- > >
- >
- > One small point, If you upgrade to a graphics card, or use some other
- > device that syncs the video out, using a non standard adaptor can
- > give your amiga rather strange behaviour.
- >
- > When I added my CV64 and attempted to use the adaptor that was supplied
- > with my Microvitec, the Amiga would refuse to boot, black screen,
- > the hard drive spinning up and down in 1 second bursts.
- >
- > Obviously, this gave me cause for concern, but changing the adaptor
- > to a standard CBM made one cured it.
-
- I have a similar wierd experience with my A1200 - I got a technician to
- make me a switch box so my 1940 can be connected to both my 1200 and my
- B2000 (with flicker fixer) at the same time. It works OK, but will not
- boot if the switchbox is set to the B2000 when the 1200 is booted (like
- you I get a black screen...
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