NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/hardware/15225

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Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bray1b.its.rpi.edu!danaf
From: [e-mail] (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Putting an ECS Denise in A2000 rev. 4.1 -> Problems?
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Keywords: ECS, Denise, A2000, rev. 4.1, flicker fixer
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:29:10 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Hanno Wirth) writes:
|> Hello out there,
|>
|> I have an old A2000 rev. 4.1, equipped with KS/WB 2.04 and a DeInterlacer card.
|> In order to get the new video modes and to kill this #%@&! border around non-
|> black screens, I am considering of buying an ECS Denise. Are there any known
|> problems with the configuration described above (such as jittery right edge of
|> display, flicker fixer not working any more, the like...)?
|>     Would anyone who put an ECS Denise in a similar config be so kind of
|> mailing me his/her experiences? That would surely help me making the decision.
|>

Not only have I had no problems with my ECS Denise in my FlickerFixed 2.04 A2000,
I highly recommend getting it! It allows you to use the new 2.04 video modes,
some of which can ONLY be used with the FF and the ECS chipset. The FlickerFixer
is almost PART of the ECS system. It does not create problems - it solves them.
DO put an ECS Denise in your A2000.

However, as for your other considerations, the Denise will not solve all of
your problems. The "jittery right edge" is present no matter what - the Amiga's
display output (total, not usable), seems to be a little too narrow for the
average multisync monitor - the display on mine JUUUST barely fits on the screen,
if I set the monitor to full horizontal size and ignore the TINY little bit of
blank video at the left side of the screen. (As for the jittery right edge, it's
not in the usable area of the screen, so it's just background color - you can't
see it.)

My one problem WAS that I could not center the screen - when the text overscan
was set to full width, I couldn't move the display over far enough to the right
to get it centered in the screen. I solved this problem with the MicroWay
Flicker Fixer control program, which allowed me to push my overscan beyond
Commodore-defined limits and into the extra gray space at the right of the
screen.

|> Greetings & thanks in advance,
|>
|>     Hanno
|>
|> +--------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
|> | Hanno Wirth, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt     | Phone: [phone]  |
|> | FB Informatik, FG Graphisch-Interaktive Systeme  | FAX  : [phone]  |
|> | Wilhelminenstrasse 7                             | EMail: [e-mail]  |
|> | D-W-6100 Darmstadt (Federal Republic of Germany) | Telex: 4 197 367 agd d   |
|> +--------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
|>

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