home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!redrobe.demon.co.uk
- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: [Q] the BEST monitor
- Date: 02 Mar 96 17:59:09 +0000
- Message-ID: <1732.6635T1079T475@Redrobe.demon.co.uk>
- References: <1996Feb29.094034.1@eisner.decus.org> <DnL4M8.CBp@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: redrobe.demon.co.uk
- X-NNTP-Posting-Host: redrobe.demon.co.uk
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
-
-
- Hi, Jolyon Ralph , on 01-Mar-96 10:46:56 you scribbled....
-
- >I've currently got a 1942 monitor on my A4000. It's a real pig to set up
- >with a 3rd party graphics card (Picasso II - it wouldn't work with the
- >Piccolo SD64 at all!). It's set to a very limited range of scanrates, and
- >even a usable 800x600 mode seems beyond it. (If anyone has a Picasso II
- >CyberGraphics mode file for the 1942 then I'd be happy to hear from you!)
-
- 800x600 is fine here...sorry no amiga gfx card yet, do gfx cards not like
- sync'ing down to <34khz horiz then?
-
- >And because of the strange modes it supports, it's useless if you want to
- >use the monitor with an Amiga and PC. It doesn't even do all the standard
- >Amiga modes (Super72).
-
- This 'ere 1942 does...
-
- I use it on my Amiga (4000...no gfx card yet, so moned tweaked dblpal
- 704x550)) and my PC (800x600)
-
- From experimentation its scans from 15-23 and 27-34 khz horiz...
-
- it'll manage 800x600 non-int easily on my PC, and 1024x768 interlaced...can't
- quite get 1024x768NI to fit on the screen :(
-
- >The 1942s we've used have been prone to all sorts of problems (unlike the
- >1960 monitors which seem to go on for ages without problems). We've not
- >had any problems with the 1438s, and the build quality /seems/ a lot
- >better.
-
- I've had this 1942 for 3 years without problems...
-
- >Perhaps Amiga Computing had a duff one, but I'd buy another 1438 without
- >hesitation if we needed a new cheap Amiga monitor. I wouldn't even touch
- >a 1942 at half the price....
-
- I would...
-
-
-
-
- Mike
-
- --
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Mike Redrobe - Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk MikeRR on #Amiga
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-