lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (07/24/89)
In <2564@ur-cc.UUCP>, lmna_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Louis Nau) writes: > I am wondering if anyone out there has tried to connect an Atari >SC1224 Color monitor to an Amiga. I already own an Atari 1040ST system, >and am planing on buying an Amiga 500. I would like to be able to save the >cost of buying another monitor if at all possible, as this may determine if >I can afford the Amiga system. I am new to hardware hacking, and don't even >know if the signals are compatible. Please Email me or post as to the >plausability of this idea. Yes you can. Jeff Lydiatt and I both bought Atari SC1224 monitors for our Amiga 1000 machines shortly after we got them (Jeff still has his A1000, and still uses the Atari monitor). The conversion was simple, consisting of removing one DIN plug from the Atari-supplied cable, and connecting the wires to the appropriate pins on a DB-23 (hacked from a DB-25 back then, because you couldn't find DB-23s for any price). When I tried to hook the same monitor to my 2000, it didn't work, but that was because one of the sync signals was loading down the AMiga, causing it to think I had a genlock plugged in, thus inhibiting the clock. If this is the sace with yours, you can easily buffer the sync line. One other small point. The early SC1224s were vastly superior to the present day model of the same number, which has been Tramielized to reduce cost. -larry -- "So what the hell are we going to do with a Sun?" - Darlene Phillips - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
lmna_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Louis Nau) (07/25/89)
I am wondering if anyone out there has tried to connect an Atari SC1224 Color monitor to an Amiga. I already own an Atari 1040ST system, and am planing on buying an Amiga 500. I would like to be able to save the cost of buying another monitor if at all possible, as this may determine if I can afford the Amiga system. I am new to hardware hacking, and don't even know if the signals are compatible. Please Email me or post as to the plausability of this idea. Thanks in advance for any help you can give, louis Nau lmna_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu P.S. This is my first attempt at posting and I am a terrible speller, so please forgive any mistakes. :-)
kevin@cbmvax.UUCP (Kevin Klop) (07/25/89)
In article <2564@ur-cc.UUCP> lmna_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Louis Nau) writes: > > I am wondering if anyone out there has tried to connect an Atari >SC1224 Color monitor to an Amiga. I have heard of people managing it. I forget exactly the pin differences. If you can get me the pin outs of the Atari, I'll tell you what you need to do to connect the (*gulp*) (*grin*) Atari monitor to your amiga. Note that I'm doing this on my own., and NOT as an employee of Commodore-Amiga. If you blow up something, it will be, unfortunately, considered a warranty-voiding experience. I blew up my original A1000's motherboard hooking up a special monitor to it. I accidentally shorted two cables and, well, pulled a LOT of current through the video circuitry... *grin* -- kevin -- Kevin Klop {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!kevin Commodore-Amiga, Inc. The number, 111-111-1111 has been changed. The new number is: 134-253-2452-243556-678893-3567875645434-4456789432576-385972 Disclaimer: _I_ don't know what I said, much less my employer.
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (07/25/89)
In article <2564@ur-cc.UUCP> lmna_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Louis Nau) writes: > > I am wondering if anyone out there has tried to connect an Atari > SC1224 Color monitor to an Amiga. I already own an Atari 1040ST system, > and am planing on buying an Amiga 500. I would like to be able to save the > cost of buying another monitor if at all possible, as this may determine if > I can afford the Amiga system. I am new to hardware hacking, and don't even > know if the signals are compatible. Please Email me or post as to the > plausability of this idea. It is perfectly doable, and depending on whether you got one of the "good" SC1224's you'll get a pretty nice display. Resolution is nothing special, but the black-matrix screen makes for nice bright colors. I've done it simply by chopping the Atari cable and putting on a 23-pin connector, using the separate horizontal and vertical sync signals. You may have to "buffer" the sync's if your system won't boot reliably with the monitor plugged in. You may also want to wire up the Audio signal in to monitor cable to the Amiga audio output. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
protcoop@bnr-public.uucp (Co-op Student) (07/26/89)
There is a fellow out there by the name of Barry Comer who has done this. Barry is a friend of mine from university who has an ST and an Amiga. Barry? You listening? I have seen Barry's name floating around lately so if you ask him nicely he may just repost the pin assignments. (I think he already posted them twice). --------------------------------------- Alan W. McKay | My opinions are mine, yours are yours. | Eat Food | NEPEAN, Ont. | I in no way pretend to represent the | and | 613-763-8980 | the options of my employer. So there. | LIVE !! |