Santa's come early... A new scandoubler from Individual Computers

[keropi]

alice, lisa ...damn those names

[StevenJGore]

Would the Indivision AGA work in a CD32 (at least in theory, even if it wouldn't physically fit)?

[alexh]

Yes, but it could never physically fit. There are just too many components next to the Lisa chip. Not to mention the CD mechanism.

[DDNI]

Would it be possible to solder an extension wire to each leg on the chip and route it to the indivision?

[TheCorfiot]

Originally Posted by DDNI

Would it be possible to solder an extension wire to each leg on the chip and route it to the indivision?

In Theory You could use another Socket, dremelled to fit around the other CD32 PCB componets, & run wires from there, in practice it's a hell of a job & stability maybe an issue regarding cable type & length, noise pickup etc...

CD32 is designed to run with Home TV as a console & the S-Video output is a lot better than composite.

Just my thoughts.

TC

Actually just having another look at Alex's piccie that would be a seriously modded socket & again not sure if it would hold up or even fit

[alexh]

You'd have to desolder the crystal and several capacitors and have them on flying leads which probably wouldn't work.

[FOL]

Originally Posted by TheCorfiot

In Theory You could use another Socket, dremelled to fit around the other CD32 PCB componets, & run wires from there, in practice it's a hell of a job & stability maybe an issue regarding cable type & length, noise pickup etc...

CD32 is designed to run with Home TV as a console & the S-Video output is a lot better than composite.

Just my thoughts.

TC

Actually just having another look at Alex's piccie that would be a seriously modded socket & again not sure if it would hold up or even fit

Sounds like the type of mod I would love to have a go at, . Maybe 1 day.

[Charlie]

TBH: I find the S-Video on the CD32 more then acceptable with good quality cables.

[TheCorfiot]

Originally Posted by Charlie

TBH: I find the S-Video on the CD32 more then acceptable with good quality cables.

Totally agree that was my conclusion from my post when having a good think about it.

TC

[alexh]

Unfortunately I dont think the digital RGB signals are available on the expansion connector (Analog ones are)

[FOL]

Originally Posted by TheCorfiot

Totally agree that was my conclusion from my post when having a good think about it.

TC

I third that.

I have always used S-Video on my CD32.

[DJBase]

Originally Posted by alexh

Unfortunately I dont think the digital RGB signals are available on the expansion connector (Analog ones are)

Its everything present on the expansion port that you would need to make a RGB Video Port like on all other amigas. Its only a matter of where to get these 182pin connectors these days.

[T_hairy_bootson]

Mine should be arriving sometime this week or next week from Amigakit, damn geography. Is there anyway to push out a square picture on a wide screen tft with the included software? Or will I have to buy a non widescreen tft just for this? I don't have room for CRT monitors sadly and besides some small multisync monitors and 1084s I think I threw them all out.

[Fingerlickin_B]

I've ordered mine too

F*ckin' can't wait...this is going to be sooooo much better for my eyes (1081 almost dead, so using a small TV as monitor until then)

PZ.

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by gklinger

Uh oh. That worries me. I can barely handle the case of nerves I get trying to insert an accelerator. Took me 20+ minutes to work up the courage last time.

really my Blizzard 030@50 snapped into place quite easily on my 1d4 mb...what version is your mb as ive heard that some earlier versions were very difficult

Originally Posted by gklinger

I'm already worrying about where I'm going to put my CF card which currently sits on a piece of cardboard on top of the HD chassis. .

im just gonna put it on top of the indivision itself..of course with lots of nice electrical tape as an insulator...still waiting (sigh)

[Oliver_A]

There is a new update out now, which improves a lot of things.

http://siliconsonic.de/t/bin/Indivision_Config_V09.lha

You can change and save now the screen parameters of Indivision AGA. Indivision AGA is FPGA and flash based, so we can and will, make lots of improvements in the life time of this product.

[keropi]

thanks Oliver_A!!!

edit:

is screen positioning supposed to work real-time? it does nothing...

[Oliver_A]

As described in the readme, you have to flash the newest core, which is provided in this archive, and then, after clicking "Default Config", you can see the changes by activating "Use Display Timing from User Settings" by pressing the "Use Display Timing" button. It's all explained in the readme.

[alexh]

I was asked to forward this in an Email from Andre Pfeiffer, author of HighGFX. I've not been following this thread so I apologise if this is already covered.

Originally Posted by Andre "Ratte" Pfeiffer

Some important news, there will be an config tool for the Indivison very soon. It will fix the highgfx-bug and enable a lot of adjustment-functions. Screenshot is included. Now some background to the highgfx-bug (thats why i am so unhappy, I can't discuss with you guys, cause I lost my password for eab) Oliver and Jens stored the settings from my last beta of hgfx406 inside the Indivision firmware. But as a result of a last minute improvement I found some scanlines to optimize the driver for the aga-chipset for use with multisync-monitors WITHOUT flickerfixer. The whole display is reduced by 10 (non visible) scanlines and AmigaOS is centered (the visible part) in a way that you loose 5 scanlines with the current firmware of the Indivison. This will be fixed soon. As a workaround I will add the last highgfx406beta archive, with the old settings. This will work until the new firmware is out. Also included is a testdisk (selfextracting amiga-executable) please try it.

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?p=197038

New firmware and alpha of config tool attached.

The final version of hgfx40.6 should now work. Use at own risk.

[Oliver_A]

That's correct, the update posted here fixes all problems with the new HighGFX 40.6 version. The Screenshot however, is not up to date anymore, as it shows an early alpha version of the Tool.

Here is a screenshot from the prerelease version running HighGFX 40.6. In the archive, the Tool has been renamed from Indivision Screen to Indivision Config.