What the truck? scan doublers / converters

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Best options in order for A1200...

1. Indivision AGA MK2 - sadly out of production. They add some really useful resolutions that your Amiga can't do natively. Get one if you can but the current 2nd hand price is 250EUR or so.
2. OSSC - the Open Source Scan Converter - best used with a 23-pin to SCART cable and a good HDMI monitor. Not perfect, not all resolutions supported, needs lots of time adjusting for best results.
(you must know about this given the line of consoles in your sig, right?)
3. A monitor that does sync to Amiga video. Result will vary from every single mode supported to only some, and not quite centred or scaled correctly.
4. The 8220 arcade converter - mass produced, cheap, terrible quality but basically works.

I do not know what either eBay auction is. Maybe some enterprising person packaged an 8220 or similar with the right cabling for an Amiga? But you're paying for quality - "Fully tested and professionally finished product (no hacksaw used)" :D

Maybe someone has actually made a new scan doubler. There are lots of designs around and doing it wouldn't actually be that hard - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs
You would need a triple output DAC in addition to a bluetooth microcontroller that has an ADC. Probably one of the nrF52840 bluetooth board would do it? Not everyone throws a new design open to the world on GitHub and I think it's pretty reasonable if you have spent months making a thing to try and get some reward for it. You might even want to be doing that full-time instead of your day job.

Some will disagree with the above assessment and say the 8220 is fine, but they are only fine in the sense that a filthy, mushy keyboard covered in cheeto dust will still put characters into a computer.
 
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Some will disagree with the above assessment and say the 8220 is fine, but they are only fine in the sense that a filthy, mushy keyboard covered in cheeto dust will still put characters into a computer.

I agree with the assesment :p

The first one I had was bad, ( I sold it) and the one I got now is also bad but in other ways...

currently I have bought one of these : https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product/gbs-control-board/ to see if it "magicly" makes the gbs "better" :p
 
There is a Custom Firmware for the GBS board. I've not looked into it yet but looks interesting here is a link to GBS Control firmware ( Click Me )
currently I have bought one of these : https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product/gbs-control-board/ to see if it "magicly" makes the gbs "better" :p
Just realised this board you mentioned from Arananet.net is used in conjunction with this custom firmware, very interesting and also very sold out!! has always with Arananet's gear :lol:.
 
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So after researching a few monitors today that can take 15KHz from my A1200, I also came across two interesting products:

One is a Scart converter : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commodor...DMI-DVI-output-with-input-cable-/171924685478

and another a CBS 8220 / arcade board


Is it me or are these guys taking the Micheal?

The auction looks exactly like the upscaler you can get on amazon for like £23 so yeah much Michael is being taken here as there is no mention as to how this is different but it's exactly the same box https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flylink-Co...eywords=video+upscaler&qid=1592921868&sr=8-13

The second thing you mentioned is I think the GBS 8220. Not CBS. And despite what the others have said here I have one and it's well worth £14 is you ask me. However by itself it is every inch a £14 upscaler. But if you did what I did and buy a mini control board for it, and flash firmware to it called GBS control then you get close to say something that costs more like £100. So in total I spent about £22 because I had to by a little plug to attach to the control board. I used an old nokia phone charger I had lying around to power the board. Granted I spent a lot of time sorting it out but it was all worth it in the end and made for a challenging project.

If you need proof if the quality I can make a video and show you just pm me.
 
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If you need proof if the quality I can make a video and show you just pm me.

I would be interested in seeing the quality via a video of the GBS with the GBS Control firmware in action
 
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I have just bought a gbs 8200 and added the wemos D1 board with gbs control software flashed to it. It works very well on my cheap vga monitor. I can alter the settings by logging into the board using WiFi on my mobile phone. The whole project including a power supply cost about £30. We'll worth it but it was tricky to set it all up. I do need to make a case for it now though to keep it all together. I just followed videos on YouTube for gbs control
 
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