Details for the next generation of Flickerfixers from Individual Computers

[TreacleWench]

Originally Posted by amigakit.com

@Treaclewench

Glad it arrived safely. Hope it was a prompt delivery too, saving you time from ordering outside the UK. Thank you for the order and hope to see you return to our webstore again soon.

I got an email saying it was dispatched on Thursday night, it arrived Saturday morning so nice and quick thanks!

I do always go to you guys first and only order outside the UK if it's the only way I can get an item.

[amigakit.com]

@TreacleWench

Much appreciated

If you spot anything Amiga we should be stocking, please suggest it to us.

[TreacleWench]

Originally Posted by amigakit.com

@TreacleWench

Much appreciated

If you spot anything Amiga we should be stocking, please suggest it to us.

I'm just desperate for an EZ Z4!

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by TreacleWench

I'm just desperate for an EZ Z4!

Make that two of us, I fired an email off to Amigakit sales about this weeks ago and not had a reply yet

[fitzsteve]

I'm selling an ez z4 tower over at Amibay :-)

[magnetic]

Originally Posted by amigakit.com

@TreacleWench

Much appreciated

If you spot anything Amiga we should be stocking, please suggest it to us.

Is there ever going to be another batch of Subway boards?

[melbourneben!]

Has anyone tried the indi mk2 with standard workbench (PAL or NTSC) resolutions or when playing old games? I'm most interested to see if 640x480 interlaced works well before I order.

[magnetic]

melbourne

Yes, this is probably the most important screenmodes and if you read through this thread you will see that it should be supported OOTB.

[FOL]

Originally Posted by TreacleWench

I'm just desperate for an EZ Z4!

Originally Posted by BarryB

Make that two of us, I fired an email off to Amigakit sales about this weeks ago and not had a reply yet

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

I'm selling an ez z4 tower over at Amibay :-)

Originally Posted by magnetic

Is there ever going to be another batch of Subway boards?

Originally Posted by amigakit.com

@TreacleWench

Much appreciated

If you spot anything Amiga we should be stocking, please suggest it to us.

Guys, proberly better to pm or email amigakit, as this topic will be dragged off topic.

[melbourneben!]

Originally Posted by magnetic

melbourne

Yes, this is probably the most important screenmodes and if you read through this thread you will see that it should be supported OOTB.

I agree and assumed it would work out of the box however atleast 1 person seems to be having problems on a thread over at Amibay, this could ofcourse be due to there config/monitor.

[DonAmiga]

Originally Posted by Schoenfeld

Hi,

here's three trial cores. They are strictly experimental and may be dangerous to first-generation multisync monitors. The 100MHz and 107MHz cores display PAL, NTSC and especially the DBL modes in such high frequencies that early-generation multisync monitors may be destroyed. You have been warned.

Only flash one of these cores if you have a way back: You should have a 15kHz monitor as a backup to see the flashtool. There is no way to "try before you flash", because the FPGA can only be loaded from flash, so you should have a display solution available that works even if your monitor cannot display what Indivision AGA MK2 is showing.

The 71MHz core has the picture shifted to the left and the overall line length reduced. It should be much better for PAL and NTSC, as the filename states. However, with the display-start shifted that far, HighGFX, HD720 and XTREME are cut off on the left. This should clarify that there's no way around the flashtool which lets you tweak and save settings for every screenmode individually.

The 100MHz core displays XTREME SHires-laced in 57Hz. This one has the picture shifted right again, so it's not cut off at the left. The same positioning is in the 107MHz core, and this one outputs XTREME SHires-laced in 61Hz. Both these modes display even on my most-piccy Dell monitor, although they still don't match any common panel size.

Once again, these cores are experimental and potentially dangerougs to your CRT monitor.

Jens

For those of us who have never flashed any cores how would I do it? Or would it be safer just to wait until the final cores are ready?

Cheers

[Retrofan]

My Indi has just arrived. I'm very happy, it's wonderful. Look:



Excuse me for the bad quality. Aaah! How happy...

Ah, yes, I will open it when I'll have kippers2k's cable , as I can't try it without that.

[kipper2k]

My Vesalia order should arrive in Thunder Bay this morning so i should have it in Churchill by end of the week. I have some boards arriving too so could be a busy weekend

[CUF]

Got my indy today and... image is clear but screen is set to the right on my flatscreen monitor . lol i think i'll wait for the update... can't wait! I love this!!

Thank you Individual Comp.

[weiju]

Got my Indivision this morning, only took 3 days from UK to Seattle, I'm impressed
Gotta find me a monitor now...

Thanks !

[diablothe2nd]

Originally Posted by weiju

3 days from UK to Seattle

wow you guys have great customs (or lazy ones that can't be bothered checking the packages LOL)

took an order from your side of the pond 7 days to reach me last month

[johnim]

hi guys has anyone noticed how hot they get i know they have 3 regulators on well i think they are, been trying mine today for a few hours

still waiting pin strips for my fastata tried rom risers but cant get it to fit level even 2 sets

[diablothe2nd]

Originally Posted by johnim

still waiting pin strips tried rom risers but cant get it to fit level even 2 sets

did you try the long legged risers and cutting them so it sits at an angle as per a previous post of mine?

[diablothe2nd]

this is the image i'm referring to:

[johnim]

yes mate i tried that and all i got was the indy logo and nothing else i think the middle pins are the problem will wait for the strips an cut to size

[DonAmiga]

Originally Posted by johnim

hi guys has anyone noticed how hot they get i know they have 3 regulators on well i think they are, been trying mine today for a few hours

I had mine on the last couple of day at least 6hrs and mines is fitted with the case screwed shut

[diablothe2nd]

Has anyone tried the 3 core updates yet?

i was a bit put off by the risk to my monitor. although it's lcd not crt so not sure of the danger.

[DonAmiga]

No yet, is it just a case of putting them on to disk and booting them up? I'm not sure how to so will leave it till I know

[duga]

Originally Posted by DonAmiga

No yet, is it just a case of putting them on to disk and booting them up? I'm not sure how to so will leave it till I know

I'm sure you should stay away from doing it.

[diablothe2nd]

so we're still waiting for the user friendly updates so we can get it working on the more picky lcd's like all 6 of mine in the house? :/

[johnim]

i have tried them they do move the screen over great for pal/nstc but as jens said the HighGFX, HD720 and XTREME are cut off on the left

well i dont know about XTREME none of the three lcds work with it

im using highgfx shires laced on a dell 1708 fpb and that looks great dvi to vga, dvi gives banding

i also have tried the hd720 on my dell2409 with dvi to hdmi adapter thats great

[diablothe2nd]

sorry for quickly posting before getting an answer to my previous question (about to watch a tv show about to air :P )

if i choose HD720, does that mean software needing PAL (games etc) wont display?

[p@rity]

I installed my 1200 ff this morning... Upgraded to the latest core and added a heatsink to Alice as recommended. The system runs standard PAL hi-res (not super high res) using the DVI port.

It seems to run games fine, but after a few hours the workbench icons start to get some distortions. One time the screen suddenly 'flipped' into a weird mode where horizontal lines appeared and the clock (ACA accelerator) jumped a day and a few hours ahead. After a soft reset everything went back to normal (even the clock) for a while. After a bit more testing, the system started hanging (power led blinking) and gurus were starting to appear. The system worked fine with the ACA accellerator by itself, but the WB was never in High Res.

I'll work thru the issues with the vendor, but was wondering if anyone else has seen this?

[Ech0]

So this is my experience so far!.. I installed Indivision last friday and connected one of my DVI-monitors. NO picture displayed, "out of sync". So I tried another one, same result, and finally my projector with DVI/HDMI-adapter, same result.

So I picked a monitor which has VGA connector and used standard DVI/VGA-adapter. The monitor light up and displayed the screen nicely. Tried a couple of VGA-connected monitors, all TFT/LCD and every single VGA-connected monitor worked.

Though, I got some "vertical" lines, which probably has something to do with alignment or something. This is a common problem with FlickerFixers that is not correctly tuned to match a monitor. I guess this problem will be fixed.

I've tried to flash with the files distributed by Joerg this thread. I still got no luck with DVI (neither of the trial-cores works with DVI). 71mhz_PAL_NTSC works nicely, with VGA-connected monitors, but I got some strange graphical bugs on icons etc. I am back with the original flash again.

Anyway, its a nice product, quite easy to install .. I will go to a 2nd hand-store tomorrow to try to find a nice CRT-monitor to play with.

- Greets!

[johnim]

to change cores run the flasher program

(backup origional core and config) you get a requester to save to name it origonal

then with the same prog

click flash core
you get a warning saying you will lose previous settings press yes
a requester comes up to find flash then click ok
it takes a few seconds
the output goes black and new screen shows

and thats it

you can use overscan to make tiny adjustments

[amigakit.com]

@weiju

Thanks for the order. Glad it arrived safely with FedEx.

[johnim]

i have put a small fan over indy as it gets to hot and im getting glitches too

[p@rity]

Originally Posted by johnim

i have put a small fan over indy as it gets to hot and im getting glitches too

Did that help you? I did notice the machine was warmer than usual... and it's at least 25 celcius in the room (saving energy with the airco).

I have another machine I am trying at the moment to see if it makes any difference. So far, so good.

[johnim]

it seems to be helping

[Riempie]

Well, I received my package today. 2x Indivision A1200, MAS player evolution, and boingball mouse I even got an amiga future magazine for free Am I the only one who got this? Or is it because I've spend so much money on amiga hardware the last 2 years? Thx Amigakit!

So I immediately installed the indivision in my AT A1200 (with a dvi-hdmi adapter), rev 2b motherboard, aca 56mhz and 4gb cf hd. I was overwhelmed by the great picture! Amazing! Then I started a WHDload game. All games crashed after a few seconds. I forgot to connect the grounding cable, so I connected this and fired up the amiga again. Upper RF-shield still off.. Everything went smooth now.... for about half an hour... I experience the same issues like p@arity. The workbench icons get distorted and then after a while random crashes. I had these issues before even without the indivision but I already solved this by placing a small heatsink on Alice. But now these issues are back Placing more heatsinks is not an option. The heat seems to be the problem though.

I still need to modify the upper rf shield and put this back on which may fix these issues. But the amiga ran fine without it before so I doubt this will solve anything.

Is it ok btw to have the cf-hd (also bought from amigakit) lying on top of the indivision? The cf-hd has some nice plastic and glue-like stuff underneath so I guess this should not be any problem.

If this doesn't help then I'll test the second indivision on 1 of my other 3 A1200's to see which one will be stable. This will take a lot of time

But I must say the product looks very nice, so I would like to thank Jens for making this possible.

[Riempie]

Originally Posted by johnim

i have put a small fan over indy as it gets to hot and im getting glitches too

A small fan inside a desktop A1200? Is this possible? If so I would be interested to know what kind of fan and how to connect this.

[p@rity]

Originally Posted by Riempie

Well, I received my package today. 2x Indivision A1200, MAS player evolution, and boingball mouse I even got an amiga future magazine for free Am I the only one who got this? Or is it because I've spend so much money on amiga hardware the last 2 years? Thx Amigakit!

So I immediately installed the indivision in my AT A1200 (with a dvi-hdmi adapter), rev 2b motherboard, aca 56mhz and 4gb cf hd. I was overwhelmed by the great picture! Amazing! Then I started a WHDload game. All games crashed after a few seconds. I forgot to connect the grounding cable, so I connected this and fired up the amiga again. Upper RF-shield still off.. Everything went smooth now.... for about half an hour... I experience the same issues like p@arity. The workbench icons get distorted and then after a while random crashes. I had these issues before even without the indivision but I already solved this by placing a small heatsink on Alice. But now these issues are back Placing more heatsinks is not an option. The heat seems to be the problem though.

I still need to modify the upper rf shield and put this back on which may fix these issues. But the amiga ran fine without it before so I doubt this will solve anything.

Is it ok btw to have the cf-hd (also bought from amigakit) lying on top of the indivision? The cf-hd has some nice plastic and glue-like stuff underneath so I guess this should not be any problem.

If this doesn't help then I'll test the second indivision on 1 of my other 3 A1200's to see which one will be stable. This will take a lot of time

But I must say the product looks very nice, so I would like to thank Jens for making this possible.

Did you also install the "Trial1_71MHz_PAL_NTSC" core?

[Riempie]

No, I haven't tried a different core. Why? Could this help or is it just the one you are using which also causes problems?

[p@rity]

Originally Posted by Riempie

No, I haven't tried a different core. Why? Could this help or is it just the one you are using which also causes problems?

Nope, that's the one I am running with. Although the quality of the picture is extremely good with this particular core, this one machine does have garbled icons, missing icons and crashes. With my other machine, which also has an ACA (faster version too), I have not seen any issues in High Res. However, this machine runs into problems when I run anything higher than High Res. The issues seem different though... nothing with the icons, but more with the mouse pointer and parts of the screen itself. This second machine also has a cooling element on Alice. I'll try a machine with a blizzard next...

[johnim]

im using a blizzard 1230 mkiv with mine running screen res

highgfx:superhigh res laced 1024 x 768 on a viewsonic vp201s max res 1600 x 1200