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    One of the people in the Executive of our local Amiga Club has put one
    of these on his 2000 and rates it very high.  He is a hardware type but
    indicated that it installs easily and works very well.  His major
    reason for this unit is that it leaves the video slot free for other
    items.
    
    If you have any specific questions post them and I will relay the
    information.
    
    wayne
    

    I have a few...
    
    I understand it plugs in place of an existing chip.  Which one?
    
    What are the physical dimensions of the board?
    
    Is an attached cable provided?
    
    aTdHvAaNnKcSe...Tony

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>   I understand it plugs in place of an existing chip.  Which one?
    
    I think it goes UNDER the Denise chip.  One uplugs Denise, plugs in the
    board, and plugs Denise into a socket thereon.
    
>   Is an attached cable provided?
    
    Yes.  For the A500, the flat cable (which one passes between the upper
    and lower case halves) terminates in a DB9 connector.  For the A2000,
    a metal piece is provided for the DB9 connector to pass through. 
    Between the DB9 and your monitor should be a standard VGA monitor cable.

    For those of you who already have a Flicker Fixer, I am running a DEB
    2000 with Toaster, with no ill effects.  Seems to work fine.
    
    This is the same kind of thing, captures video off Denise and runs it
    over to the left side of the case.
    
    Easy to install if you can use a screwdriver.
    
    Topgun

    I've already eliminated Flicker Fixer from consideration because it
    doesn't support both NTSC and PAL display modes.  I have installed a
    switch to boot in either mode, and PAL is useful sometimes.
    
    Thanks for the info on cable cofigurations, I'd been wondering about
    that myself.  There's a (small) picture of the FFV board in current
    Creative Computers advertisments, but no cables visible.

    Does FFV do the "scan doubling" trick (like A2320 and A3000)?  In other
    words, will a non-multisync VGA monitor work properly in every possible
    display mode, including the new ECS/V2.0 ones?

    I'm trying to decide whether to significantly favor multisync capability
    over a "better" fixed-rate VGA monitor at the same $$$.  Also, choices
    become severely limited if you want a multisync capable of handling rates
    down into the standard NTSC (15 KHz) range.

    What's the difference between an FFV and Black Belt Systems'
    HAM-E addon that plugs into the RGB port?  

    - Cliff

    FFV is a display "de-interlacer".  It merges the 2 interlaced fields of
    the normal video display into a single non-interlaced field output at
    higher scan rates.  Since the whole screen gets 'painted' twice as often,
    your eyes don't see any flicker.  This requires a multi-sync or VGA
    monitor capable of handling the doubled scan rates.
    
    HAM-E is a tricky way to get more colors by trading off half of the
    resolution.  As far as I know, it's still producing an interlaced
    display so the flicker effect is still visible.  Because the normal
    scan rates are maintained, this works with standard analog RGB (1084)
    monitors.

	I read in .-1 that a flickerfixer works with a multisync monitor
	as well as with a VGA monitor. Is this really true ? Does that
	mean that I can get a cheaper VGA monitor and need not buy an
	expensive multisync.

	Thanks
	Helmut 

    
    re .9
    
    	Yes, my brother uses a standard VGA monitor with a flicker fixer.
    
    		Steve P
    

Re: .9

I use a MicroWay FlickerFixer with a Zenith VGA monitor.  I talked
to the FlickerFixer designer, and one of his design goals was for
the FlickerFixer to be VGA compatible.

Somewhere I remember reading a feature-by-feature comparison of the
FF vs FFV vs A2320, but I can no longer find it.  I don't think it was in
this conference - perhaps in some magazine I have lost.  Did anyone else
see this?  As I recall, there was some minor problem with the A2320.

	Paul
	

    The A2320 has (had?) a minor problem in which RGB values of 777 and 888
    both produced the same color display.  The cure was a simple resistor
    change, as I recall from discussions on USENET.

    Re: .12

� Somewhere I remember reading a feature-by-feature comparison of the
� FF vs FFV vs A2320, but I can no longer find it.  I don't think it was in
� this conference - perhaps in some magazine I have lost.  Did anyone else

    Check the August issue of AmigaWorld.

    Pete