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From: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ICD Flicker Fixer
Message-ID: <21175@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 May 91 21:42:26 GMT
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Reply-To: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
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?
> 

This sounds very interesting since Commodore does not sell the AMBER
chip to ICD!!!  I have also seen a picture of the FFV and it did NOT
have any Commodore chips on it.  Please look at your picture again!

> 
>>--
>>Scott Hood, Hardware Design Engineer (A3000 Crew),  Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
>>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!hood   hood@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com
>>  "The views expressed here are not necessarily those of my employer!" 
>
>
> 
> 
>				Philip
>				pk@wet.uucp
>				{cca.ucsf.edu,hoptoad,claris}!wet!pk
>  
> 
>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.


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Scott Hood, Hardware Design Engineer (A3000 Crew),  Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!hood   hood@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com
  "The views expressed here are not necessarily those of my employer!"