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From: pselver@ssi3b1.zone1.com (Peter Selverstone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Flicker Fixer
Message-ID: <1989Nov3.034522.24505@ssi3b1.zone1.com>
Date: 3 Nov 89 03:45:22 GMT
References: <628@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: pselver@ssi3b1.UUCP (Peter Selverstone)
Organization: Spy Pond Systems
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In article <628@crash.cts.com>
  bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:

>Network Comment: to #4436 by jdp@caleb.UUCP
>
>> Hello,
>> I am considering buying a Flicker Fixer (MicroWay.)  I would like to
>> get some first hand reports from the folks that have been using it for at
>> least six months.  How reliable is it?  Any problems?  What multisync should
>> I get to work with it?  Any other comments/suggestions?
>
>> I have been considering getting the Sony Multiscan 1304 for use with the
>> Flicker Fixer (and for future higher resolution displays.)  However, I have
>> read that it won't work on an Amiga without a Flicker Fixer.  Is anyone out
>> there using one?  Is it a good monitor for this purpose?  Is the FF reliable
>> enough to justify getting a monitor that won't work without it?
>
>Here is another person with the Flicker Fixer addiction.

A very laid back group, by the way...

> I have been running
>an old original NEC Multisync monitor with my Amiga 2000 for over a year now
>and it works just fine.  Who told you that Multisync monitors don't work with
>the Amiga??  All I had to do was hack a cable..or, if you don't hack cables,
>you can dial up Redmond Cable and they will hack it together for you..for a
>nice fee I might add.

The point of the original article is that the poster is interested in the
Sony 1304. The minimum scan rate of this monitor is 28 KHz.  It cannot
be used on an Amiga without a Flicker Fixer.

The one potentially informative part of this article is, alas, incorrect.

>I have nothing against the Flicker Fixer

You could have fooled me...

> except that it is a fix for a
>non-problem and the fact that it will be rendered obsolete when the new Denise
>with the 640x400 non-interlaced "Productivity Mode" comes out.  Don't waste
>your hard earned $500 on a Flicker Fixer.

This is actually not the number one item on the "Top Ten Reasons Not to
Buy a Flicker Fixer List"

The number one reason not a buy a flicker fixer is ... (drum roll) ...

  1. I'm saving my video slot for the Toaster   (wild applause)

>-- Bob

Peter

>> Thanks,
>> Jim Pritchett
>> UUCP:  {attctc|texbell}!letni!caleb!jdp

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