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- From: bamf13@ix.netcom.com(Mark & Michelle Wood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AGA Genlocking (A1300 and A1000)
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 22:25:39 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- In <4j6h77$hvo@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> mjesus@ix.netcom.com (Manuel
- Jesus Jr. ) writes:
- >
- >In <Pine.ULT.3.91.960325025905.19753A-100000@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- >"Jill E. Howe" <ojeh@sunyit.edu> writes:
- >>
- >>You can find A1300 Genlocks pretty cheap now-- they fit behind and
- >under
- >>the A1000.
- >>
- >>In theory they should work with the AGA Amigas, especially if you
- >degrade
- >>'em back to OCS/ECS mode. After all the Horizontal and Vertical
- >>frequencies are the same (obviously you need to be in plain NTSC or
- >PAL mode)
- >>and the pins are the same.
- >>
- >>We hooked a CBM A1300 Genlock to an A1200 and it didn't work at all!
- >>
- >>We either got a freaked-out looking display, or a weak, blurry,
- >ghostly,
- >>distorted image.
- >>
- >>Does anybody know why?
- >
- > I know it doesnt work, I was told by a Commodore Executive at the
- >last World of Commodore Amiga show in New York City, back in April93'
- >that the A1300 will only work on the A1000. It wont work on any other
- >amiga, He said that the video hardware in the A1000 was different than
- >that in Later Amigas, just enough to make the A1300 incompatible with
- >later machines. Something to do with Video timing... I'm not too
- >technical so I just accepted his answer and played with the A4000's
- >they had on display...
- > Hope this answers your question,
- > MJesus
-
- I believe the power supplied is different. It won't make a difference
- with a monitor that uses it's own supply, but it will affect (or is it
- effect?) devices which draw power from the video port.
-