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Gareth Knight
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Can I use a VGA monitor on my Amiga?
The Amiga is not compatible with VGA or SVGA monitors as it is
designed for use with TV signals. This may make it a perfect video
machine but it really annoys everyone else. You can produce a
screenmode compatible with VGA by using the VGA-Only monitor driver
that is located in the Storage/Monitors/ drawer on your hard drive.
However, you will not be able to display most games or programs
that open their own screens. The only way to use a monitor is too
either buy a multiscan monitor that can display the Amigas 15KHz
scan rate, or get a graphics card so the display will be retargeted
over to the monitor. A3000 owners can simply plug in any monitor
(damn their eyes) because they have a flicker fixer BUILT IN. Amiga
International have managed to solve this problem by officially
licensing a flicker fixer designed to be plugged directly into the
Amiga without any other specialist hardware. This retails for about
£60-90 and can be found in the advertisement sections of most
Amiga magazines.
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