"Indivision Mk3 Redux"

Posted: 31 January, 2021

Got around to the clean rebuild of the A1200, with Workbench 3.1.4. The SDCard and reader were fine, and now I have more than 2mb, the install was painless. I also cheated a bit, and copied over a load of .lha files from the laptop (I've not got the TCP/IP stack up and running yet...)

I did have a problem with the screenmodes, though. For the absolute life of me, I could not get the Indi to pick up any wide-screen resolutions, which is odd, as I was running the previous workbench install at 720p... It could see the resolutions the monitor provided (EDID), and it could see the Amiga's installed monitor prefs, but no matter what I tried it wouldn't latch the HighGFX 720p modes to a widescreen output.

In the end, I decided to manually edit a mode. After a bit of fiddling, the monitor fired up with the test image, so I saved the config, and then poof. Black screen. Forever. Sigh

The manual states quite clearly that making a rescue disk is advisable. Obviously, I didn't. The good news, however, is that the rescue disk works! The better news; it has a slightly newer firmware on it... On reboot it picked up the wide-screen modes correctly, and I now have a perfect, edge to edge display on my 30" monitor.

So, mild panic attack, there. Thought I'd bricked it.

I've downloaded the complete WHDLoad collection off Archive.org, so next up is some serious curation of the games and demos. Then getting the old girl back on the network.

I'll need a little run-up to that, though...

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