joe@bryans.scc.com (06/05/89)
I was wondering if anyone had any experience in hooking up an Amiga to a 20" high resolution graphics monitor. At work we have a couple of Hitachi (Temptested) color graphic monitors for use with Matrox PG-1281 graphic controllers (1280X1000X8 resolution). The monitors utilize a BNC RGB connection. I am unable to locate manuals for these monitors to determine if the signal is an ANALOG or DIGITAL RGB. Also, I would appreciate it if someone would list the pin out descriptions of the Amiga's RGB out connector. Thanks ahead of time... Joe (joe@bryans.scc.com)
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (06/06/89)
In article <16914@louie.udel.EDU> joe@bryans.scc.com writes: >I was wondering if anyone had any experience in hooking up an Amiga to a >20" high resolution graphics monitor. At work we have a couple of Hitachi >(Temptested) color graphic monitors for use with Matrox PG-1281 graphic >controllers (1280X1000X8 resolution). The monitors utilize a BNC RGB >connection. I am unable to locate manuals for these monitors to determine >if the signal is an ANALOG or DIGITAL RGB. Don't bother. The MONITOR has absolutely zero effect on what the COMPUTER can display. You'd still get 640 X 200, assuming even that the monitor could sync it's signals up to the Amiga. Monitors are built to display data presented to them by a computer, the manufacturer of the monitor asks the computer maker what signals the computer will produce when it is displaying data, not the other way around. The only way the Amiga can display more than the standard video is with extra display hardware, currently several people produce such hardware, the FlickerFixer by microway takes the Amiga display information and _redisplays it_ as a higher resolution display, the Moniterm and Viking and A2024 monitors have a display adapter that takes video and redisplays it as 1000 X 800 when Dale's incredible Copper hack tells it to. The PVA that Commodore has previewed can also probably drive that Hitachi monitor but you can't buy one of those yet. (And besides, there isn't any software support yet.) So, just so it's perfectly clear, the Amiga displays 640 X 200 non-interlaced, and 640 X 400 interlaced graphics (the latter can flicker noticeably) no matter what monitor you attach to the outputs. To get a higher resolution display requires _new_ display hardware in addition to a monitor that is designed to work with that hardware. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "A most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!"