1084 monitor

[Anapan]

I finally got a power adapter for the 1084 Amiga monitor I imported from the UK. The picture is everything I hoped it would be. Using a PS2 SCART Cable along with a FreeMCBoot ELF file called GS Mode Selector I got all my PS2 games looking perfect! The mode is "NTSC NI to NTSC I Field" which makes everything run in 240P mode with scanlines. This picture doesn't do it justice.

Now I'm waiting for another XBOX SCART cable as the one I ordered doesn't work correctly.
Some guides I'll be following to get Mame showing properly without scaling:
http://fancyxbox.info/?doc=1&secao=screen
http://fancyxbox.info/?doc=1&secao=coinops

[Hobie-wan]

Not sure why you would spend the money to import a 1084 all the way from the UK... but that looks awesome sir.

[theclaw]

Why get a UK one? Is there a difference? And is it better than 1084S, which IIRC had stereo sound?

[Anapan]

A good deal compared to the ones on ebay over a 2 week period, even with shipping from a great guy on amibay (also they wouldn't ship to Canada after inquiries). I had lots of cash to spend and wasn't willing to wait. Seems to be monural, but I just hook into my sound system or headphones anyway - it has a 2.5mm plug on the side. It does have some interesting switches that fix or break the horizontal tracking/refresh on certain consoles (bowing of the horizontal picture on the top when the screen is all white on SNES and Genesis). The Composite in is PAL, but I'll just get a PAL-NTSC converter for NES play.

[Hobie-wan]

Correct, the 1084S has stereo speakers mounted in it.

[CRTGAMER]

Looks beautiful! Have you tried the PS2 Guncon on that monitor? Should work, curious if it does with the Scart arrangement. The PS2 Guncon also has a 100hz mode. Vampire Nights!

[Anapan]

I don't have a Guncon anymore, but the Scart cable has an RCA breakout halfway down to plug the composite wire of a guncon into so I expect it would work. The monitor doesn't seem to like higher refresh rates - at least it doesn't work with VGA modes or 480P+ modes through it's scart connection. I'm going to get a DIN-DB15 VGA connector soon to see if it accepts more modes through that.

[Hobie-wan]

I don't have a Guncon anymore, but the Scart cable has an RCA breakout halfway down to plug the composite wire of a guncon into so I expect it would work. The monitor doesn't seem to like higher refresh rates - at least it doesn't work with VGA modes or 480P+ modes through it's scart connection. I'm going to get a DIN-DB15 VGA connector soon to see if it accepts more modes through that.

It may only do 480i. I know the old VGA monitor my parents had with their 1989 PC did interlaced in 1027x768, and might have been interlaced in 800x600 too.

[CRTGAMER]

I don't have a Guncon anymore, but the Scart cable has an RCA breakout halfway down to plug the composite wire of a guncon into so I expect it would work. The monitor doesn't seem to like higher refresh rates - at least it doesn't work with VGA modes or 480P+ modes through it's scart connection. I'm going to get a DIN-DB15 VGA connector soon to see if it accepts more modes through that.

It may only do 480i. I know the old VGA monitor my parents had with their 1989 PC did interlaced in 1027x768, and might have been interlaced in 800x600 too.

Not sure if it will work with a VGA cable. I think the Amiga monitor is more related to a composite monitor with the high end connections.

[Hobie-wan]

Not sure if it will work with a VGA cable. I think the Amiga monitor is more related to a composite monitor with the high end connections.

I just meant that something of that vintage might not do 480p or higher.