Finally today I had some time to spare so I could try out my Indivision AGA Scandoubler/Flickerfixer that I received from AmigaKit earlier this week.

I have to say that it is very nice to be able to purchase new Amiga hardware for a reasonable price (when you take in to account how big the market is and how much time was invested in the product) that is not second hand or has passed ten owners before me. Let us hope that in the future there will be more new hardware available such as graphic boards and accelerators.

For quite some time Amiga scandoublers and flickerfixers have been very sought after and have recently been selling for a lot of money on Ebay. In these age when everybody have a TFT screen, it is not a question of if you want to run your Amiga on the TFT, you need to run the Amiga on the TFT because soon, regular CRT monitors and televisions will be extinct to museums.

Typically Amiga computers can not display its native resolution on a VGA screen (except the Amiga 3000 that has a built in scandoubler), this was great in 1989 because it drove the total price of Amiga home computer down since you could hook up your A500 to your TV.

To be able to view all native Amiga resolutions the Amiga needs to be equipped with a scandoubler/flickerfixer such as the Indivision, or you will need an old heavy multisync CRT monitor which rarely exist in resolutions over 15″.

The Indivision is a neat little circuit board that sits on top of the video chip inside the Amiga, once seated it is very securely attached to the A1200 motherboard. However keep in mind that some revisions of the A1200 motherboard have a flatter video chip so you need to carefully sand down the socket on the Indivision. The VGA cable is connected to the Indivision AGA and preferably mounted in the free place besides the mouse port. There is no installation of drivers afterwards but in order to flash the scandoubler with a never firmware that might improve picture quality you need to download a software package from the net.

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