Hi,
> Should I go for a scandoubler with or without flickerfixer?; are there
> decent screenmodes that don't flicker and I won't have to resort to hi-res.
If you're going to go for the thing, definitely go for the
flickerfixer too. This will allow you to run your apps in
"interlaced" without having to get a headache from the flicker AND
without having to put up with the very slow doublescan aga modes.
You do get a slightly weird effect on things that move fast, like the
mouse pointer. Because its two interlaced frames drawn at once the
edges break up where the object has moved in between frames. Anything
at 25Hz or less update rate wont show this. Very minor. :)
I have set up a not-quite-maximum overscan of PAL 704x536 for
normal use which works very happily with one of Power Computing's
early version scandoubler-FF's. The only gripe is that this
particular one will *not* feed thru any AGA doublescan modes, etc,
only the 15kHz modes. (So I get, basically, PAL 50Hz, NTSC 60Hz, or
Euro36 72Hz) Other makes or models may do better at this.
Of course, you will get 100's of replies to this thread saying "buy a
gfx card..."
> Lastly, it there anything I should look out for in a good monitor; or be
> wary of in a bad one.
Many of the cheap monitors are perfectly good, especially at lower
res's. Not all of them have as many geometry controls as you might
like though, and the Amiga video timings are way off what a "normal"
gfx card would throw out, so you want plenty of range. I bought a
good make - an iiyama Vision Master 350 (15") over a year ago for
under �140 and I really cannot fault it. A similar monitor would now
be much less. I'm afraid I have no direct experience of the one you
mentioned.
I realise that has not actually given you a straight answer :) but I
hope its of some use in general...
Regards,
Ian
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