Re: VGA monitors and the IIGS

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salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott Alfter) wrote:

>It seems that scan doublers are in common use among Amiga users, though.  A
>search of "scan doubler" on AltaVista turned up several Amiga hardware
>vendors selling scan doublers at reasonable prices.  As the name indicates,
>a scan doubler takes one line of video in at 15.75 kHz and outputs it twice
>at 31.5 kHz, which corresponds to the standard 640x480 60-Hz VGA mode. 
>Doesn't the Amiga spit out the same kind of RGB video as the IIGS?  If it

Yes it does.  For the Amiga 1000 legacy modes at least.

>does, then it seems that this would be a more affordable (and better) way to
>hook any random VGA monitor to a IIGS.  Has anybody tried using one of these
>with a IIGS, and if so, how well did they work?  (I'm guessing that a
>special cable might need to be made to hook the scan doubler into a IIGS;
>those of you who are using Commodore monitors might know something about
>this.)
>
>Here are a couple of URLs I found...the models without the "flicker fixer"
>should be sufficient since the IIGS doesn't generate interlaced video:
>
>http://www.alexnco.com/hw.htm
>http://www.softhut.com/apollo.html
>
>(Both seem to be selling the same products.)

The Amiga scan doublers simply take each scan line output
by the Amiga, buffer it, and display it twice, thus displaying
the 15kHz signal on a 30kHz VGA monitor.  There are both
external and internal Amiga scan doublers.  The external
ones should work with the IIGS.  Most are internal cards,
though, which won't work on the IIGS.

If it is a box that sits between the computer and the
monitor, it'll work on the IIGS.  Of course you would need
to build an adapter cable.