alanh@hpsmeng1.HP.COM (Alan Haight) (10/09/90)
Hello Everyone,
I'm looking at getting a Flicker-Fixer (MicroWay) for my Amiga 2000 and I
can't think of a better place to get lots of honest opinions. So, what I
would like to know is ...
Would all users of the Flicker-Fixer respond with their views on how it works
for them and WHAT KIND OF MONITOR ARE YOU USING ?
I've heard you can use anything from a cheap VGA type monitor all the way up
to the full blown Multi-Sync/Multi-Scan Monitors. MicroWay said it needs to
have a 31.5KHz Horizontal and 60Hz Vertical frequencies.
So what's the best monitor for the best price ($300-$700 Mail Order Price) ?
Thanks In Advance,
Alan Haight
alan@hpsmo100.rose.hp.com
e-mail me or reply here for everybody.a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) (10/10/90)
In article <2810004@hpsmeng1.HP.COM> alanh@hpsmeng1.HP.COM (Alan Haight) writes: > I'm looking at getting a Flicker-Fixer (MicroWay) for my Amiga 2000 and I >can't think of a better place to get lots of honest opinions. So, what I >would like to know is ... > > Would all users of the Flicker-Fixer respond with their views on how it works >for them and WHAT KIND OF MONITOR ARE YOU USING ? Aha, I take it you've seen a flickerFixer in action and can't bear to live without one. That's usually the way it works; I tell people not to even look at one unless they're ready to buy because they'll never again be content with scan lines and flicker. :-) In a word, the flickerFixer is BEAUTIFUL! The only quirk I've found is that rapidly-moving images (including the mouse pointer if you move it quickly) may break up into a "double exposure"; this is an artifact of the scan doubling, but it doesn't bother me that much. Also, you apparently need an adapter daughterboard to use the flickerFixer with a genlock (which I don't have), but this is readily available from MicroWay. Several of us here use a monitor sold under the name Imtec, although I've seen the same unit marketed as Mini-Micro. Apparently they're actually made by Samsung. At the time I got mine (a year or so ago) it was about $700 Canadian (dealer list); no doubt that'll work out to considerably fewer 1990 U.S. mail-order dollars. This monitor will also scan NTSC rates, which came in handy; it took a couple of weeks for my flickerFixer to arrive, and in the meantime my dealer made me up a cable to hook the monitor to the 23-pin RGB port. Although the image completely fills the screen at NTSC rates, there's a border (half an inch or so) around the image when running from the flickerFixer. This can be minimized by tweaking the width and height controls, but not completely eliminated. Apparently this is common on many multisync monitors. Actually it's not much of a problem at all, because it means I can use overscan for text and have that much larger a screen. (The software disk provided with the flickerFixer includes a morerows program which lets you set a larger screen.) One of my favourite ways of showing off is to fire up CygnusEd in "interlace" mode (not really any more :-), select the 6-point "cedfont" supplied with CygnusEd, and display a whopping SEVENTY-SIX lines of small but readable text on my 704x470 screen. The software disk also includes some nifty images which really show off what the flickerFixer can do. One of these is a pathological case: a series of horizontal black and white lines which looks fine on the flickerFixer but flickers worse than anything I imagined possible on a stock display. As you might have guessed, I like my flickerFixer. :-) Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP "I've seen The Exorcist about a hundred and sixty-seven times, and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it!" -- Beetlejuice
jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS) (10/11/90)
In article <3477@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes: >In article <2810004@hpsmeng1.HP.COM> alanh@hpsmeng1.HP.COM (Alan Haight) >writes: > Although the image completely fills the screen at NTSC rates, >there's a border (half an inch or so) around the image when running >from the flickerFixer. This can be minimized by tweaking the width >and height controls, but not completely eliminated. Apparently this >is common on many multisync monitors. Actually it's not much of a There are a few monitors that can get around this "feature", which many of us who like to use the Amiga in its default mode find annoying. But they can be hard to find. We used the Taxxan 770+, which has an "overscan" switch that automatically extends the video out to the edges. It also had very high ratings for color quality. We were extremely happy with them, although if I had the money, I would rather have one of the 19" multisync monitors :-) :-) -- John Meissen .............................. Oregon Advanced Computing Institute jmeissen@oacis.org (Internet) | "That's the remarkable thing about life; ..!sequent!oacis!jmeissen (UUCP) | things are never so bad that they can't jmeissen (BIX) | get worse." - Calvin & Hobbes
koleman@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Kurt Koller) (10/13/90)
WEll, does the Flicker Fixer support the PAL and NTSC formats??? Kurt "Koleman" Koller - amdahl!bungia!orbit!pnet51!koleman