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From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ICD Flicker Fixer
Message-ID: <20975@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 19:32:50 GMT
References: <6515@bwdls58.bnr.ca> <1991Apr19.172421.15923@cbnews.cb.att.com> <20796@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2343@wet.UUCP>
Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2343@wet.UUCP> pk@wet.UUCP (Philip King) writes:
>In article <20796@cbmvax.commodore.com> hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood) writes:
>>>
>>The FlickerFixer(TM) does this in ALL Amiga video display modes, such as
>>non-interlaced and interlaced.  The Commodore A2320 does not do this in
>>non-interlaced mode (which is the most common mode for games and
>>therefore NOT a good idea to induce video motion artifacts like the
>>other non-Commodore products do) but does have these motion artifacts in
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>interlaced display modes.  I also do not believe that the ICD's FFV
>>board supports the ECS productivity modes as the A2320 does support it.
>>                                                      
> 
> 
>Well, that's very interesting, since the picture I have of the ICD FFV, 
>has this nice, big, juicy, COMMODORE de-interlacing chip sitting on it.
>There must be a lot of similarities, no?  What say Scott?

i'm not scott hood, but i'm a scott....

the commodore chip you see on the ICD FFV is the denise chip which you
remove from the A500's motherboard and plug into the FFV, which then plugs
into the old denise socket.

>BTW Scott, do you know whether the A2088 will refuse to work with certain
>VGA boards, if it's got the old (....4) rather than new (....6) rom on
>it?  I'm having trouble with an Orchid Prodesigner, and Randall suggested
>it might be the ROM..  I'd like to have a more concrete idea before I 
>go through the special-order process..thanks.

the latest 2088 roms are version 3.6.1 (displayed in the box you get after
rebooting the pc).  what kind of "trouble" are you having with it?  does
it get recognized and used by the BIOS?

  --Scotty
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