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- From: Ian Deaville <ian@deaville.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,demon.tech.amiga
- Subject: Re: Monitor driver troubles
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:13:56 GMT
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- Martin L Baker <mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >
- > Ian Deaville (ian@deaville.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- > : Can anyone out there help?
- >
- > Yep. Supplied with the A1200 is a little book about the AGA
- hardware.
- > Read it and it will answer all your questions. Thus:
- >
- > The only way you can get better resolutions on an Amiga, is to use a
- big
- > box one with a Graphics card.
- >
- I have read all manuals, but could not find any statement to the affect of
- "An A1200 without further modification or expansion has a maximum resolution
- of X by Y". I have now accepted that to be the case, and am looking
- tenatively at converting my A1200 into a box...
-
- > The VGAOnly driver should only ever be needed for some VGA monitors.
- Your
- > monitor is not VGA, it is multi-sync, so the VGAOnly driver will not
- make
- > any difference. I seem to think that the VGAOnly, is not actually
- a
- > driver, instead it just patches the other drivers in memory to
- slighly
- > adjust the scan rates so that they will display on some types of
- VGA
- > monitors.
- >
- I have the answers for this from the manuals, which I read within minutes of
- sending the original post... [sorry!]
-
- > HTH
- >
- > Martin.
-
- Thanks for all your help and advice anyway. Until I have the time to
- seriously play around with MonEd and other utils I will stick to DblPal
- High Res No Flicker (640*512).
-
- Thanks again folks,
-
- Ian
-
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