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- From: perezfr@issy.cnet.fr (Frederic Perez)
- Subject: Re: A1200 Flicker free?
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- References: <4e04ac$rkc@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <q8e+x*Qma@aargh.incubus.sub.org> <9601232341.AA001jg@MCP1.demon.co.uk> <4faqkp$qd@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <3119162A.37D9@ix.netcom.com> <4ff1fe$bo4@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:12:34 GMT
-
- > Paper Tiger (slntpaw@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- >
- > : Our new Gecko product was designed to allow Amigas to
- > : utilize low cost VGA displays in most Amiga modes.
- > : While the Gecko is not technically a flicker fixer
- > : (we call it a video converter) it has a stabilizing
- > : effect in the more used modes like 640x400.
- > [...]:
- > : What is included with the Gecko is the main unit (about the
- > : size of a modem), power supply, and a cable (goes between
- > : the Gecko and the Amiga 23 pin RGB port). Street price
- > : somewhere around $400 USD.
- >
- > And you try to sell something for $400 today that isn't even a real flicker-
- > fixer? An old 286 with just a floppy plus one of these cards would be
- > cheaper!
- >
- Well, it might be a mistake and he would have meant $40 USD ;)
-
- Fred
-