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- From: dgroves@village.ios.com (Damien Groves)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,de.comp.sys.amiga.tech,demon.tech.amiga
- Subject: Re: SVGA Monitor connection to an Amiga???
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 03:55:14 GMT
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- In article <958.6617T1252T2649@fuchal.demon.co.uk> chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk (Chris Appleton) writes:
- >
- > Hey, Andrew Hemmings, you mumbled somthing about SVGA Monitor connection to an
- > Amiga??? on 13-Feb-96 13:34:11?
- > AH> Hi
- >
- > AH> Is it possible to connect an Amiga to a SVGA monitor?
- > AH> and if so how? Is there a commercial cable or do I have to make it up
- > AH> myself?
- > AH> --
- >
- > Yeah, it's possible. You have to invert the horizontal and vertical sync
- > signals. For example you could use a hardwired NAND gate to do it, or a hex
- > inverter (?). Try vga2ami.lha on aminet/hard/hack. If you want to buy one in
- > the UK, try Trilogic(20UKP), Power computing(15UKP) or somewhere big like that.
- >
- > But you'll have to put up with no 15khz modes, i.e. Pal-Hires, NTSC, and say bye
- > to the early-startup menu and software error red-flashy-box things...:)
- >
- > Chris
-
- -- Or you could get bootcontrol, which will patch the early-startup/red flashing things
- and promote all screens to multisync
- which is what i use (you also need moned which reads/sets the tooltypes settings)
- but even with this setup you still need a stock monitor to set it up!!
- and some games will not run when promoted (bootUTE may help here)
- -Damien
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