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- From: thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious)
- Subject: Re: The Shimmer is *NOT* AGA (dongle in aus)
- Message-ID: <thecure.724728757@munagin>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <dej.026x@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca> <92349.200813FAA102@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec15.032707.8522@netcom.com> <1992Dec15.215139.2762@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> <1992Dec16.171741.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:32:37 GMT
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- cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
-
- >>>>>On all of the AGA machines, a fine pattern of vertical lines could
- >>>>>be seen on the screen. The lines were 8 pixels apart. On one machine,
- >>
- >> Several people in the Amiga Roundtable on GEnie have reported the same
- >> thing.
- >
- >pixels apart. Pretty damn annoying, so I went back to my flicker fixer. Later
- >on I was wanting to use a B2000 and used the A4000 supplied dongle to connect
- >to the back of the Amiga 2000 and guess what? Vertical lines every 8 pixels or
- >so. Cponclusion, it is most definetly not AGA and it seems as though the
- >supplied dongle is at fault. There is a chip inside it, is that at fault I ask
- >myself?
-
- >Has anyone tried to connect their monitor with out the converter dongle? If so
-
- I have tried in Australia on a 500, a 600, a 1000 a 2000 and 3000 (phew)
- with 3 different dongles, and each time the screen failed to sync in.
-
- It appeared to be generating the signal starting from the middle (like NTSC)
- of the screen instead of the extreme left (like PAL) - Upon speaking
- to commodore they told me I must have had a faulty dongle (3 !?)
-
- I am yet to see it work.
- --
- But all those sleepless night in bed
- I wonder if you care and cannot bear the proof
- It hurts too much to face the truth
-
-