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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Commodore Amiga monitor -> CGA? EGA? VGA?
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.192012.966@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 90 19:20:12 GMT
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jtt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (James T. Tanis) writes:

>I've got an old Amiga monitor model 1080, the kind that supports both
>analog and digital RGB at the flick of a switch. What can I do with this
>object? Will it hook up to an EGA card? 
>I'm most desirous of saving some money....

i have a amiga monitor 1080 type, and am using it as a vga monitor.
its not a very good one, but it works. it also works as an almost
ega monitor in digital mode. (8 colors instead of 64).
i have it attached to an ati card, and it works as vga, except that
the right 3/4 of the screen is on the left half of the crt, and the
left 3/4 of the screen is on the right half. its okay, because everything
is visible, and most of the text is on the left 3/4 of the screen anyway.
also its usable, because i use my herc for text.
does anyone know how to make it display vga properly? i think the
monitor can not scan as fast as the card wants it to, and it is locking
at 1/2 the frequency. perhaps there is some way to make the card
go slower?
gwoho liu.

>-JT