Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!linus!linus!eachus From: eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multiple screens Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 00:13:57 GMT References: <90317.155521JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@linus.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 33 In-reply-to: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 13 Nov 90 20:55:21 GMT In article <90317.155521JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes: I'm interested in any info on using multiple screens with the Amiga in a manner similar to that done with the PC or Mac. I mean, I've seen an a 3000 output to two screens at once; one being thru a genlock, the other through the de-interlaced video port. But both screens were identical. ... Ideas, comments, sightings? :-) I saw a Video Toaster and got to play with it for an hour or so. (A real customer unit, even though it was officially "gamma" software.) With the Toaster, two monitors is almost unusable...you need at least three, which was the configuration I was playing with. Although I was most interested in the video features, it shouldn't be too hard (in software) to rig it up to use as a three monitor wide display. I don't think that there is any such software in the Toaster, but I may just have not found it. However, the 3000 supports ALL the Amiga video modes, including one that has a multipane display at a low refresh rate (for the Moniterm monitor). Probably the easiest way to do what you want would be to build an exteral box to send each pane to a different monitor. (It would require about 4 Meg or so of memory, but memory is getting cheaper all the time...) Since I've seen such displays in airports (driven by Amigas), it may even be an "off-the-shelf" product from some 3rd party vendor. -- Robert I. Eachus with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...