mons2b Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Hi team, Ive done a search of the forum and cant find a how to guide on how to expand the image on standard atari monitor. Screen is small as is without the wasted border space. So is the technical adjustment to make it bigger very hard? Also does anyone know why Atari designed such a border in the monitor? Seems silly but there must have been some reason? John NEW ZEALAND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 See Google groups here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 If you have Atari ST (not STE) zou can insatll small upgrade called overscan. There is also free version lacescan. The archive with doc is here http://atari4ever.free.fr/#video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mons2b Posted October 23, 2007 Author Share Posted October 23, 2007 See Google groups here. Ok thank you. Going by that link it seems increasing screen size is bad for our elderly monitors so prehaps I will leave it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 See Google groups here. Ok thank you. Going by that link it seems increasing screen size is bad for our elderly monitors so prehaps I will leave it. And anyway, how were you supposed to enjoy fullscreen demos if you decreased the border size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I am using overscan only in monochrome mode Unfortunately there is not so many demos for mono. I know only 2 - Jirka Lamac demo and the Earth from Baky. Is there some other which I do not know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppera Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Too big border (small pic) on Atari monochrome (SM 124) may be result of old electrolyt capacitors. It is known issue. I had such problem, but can not say now exactly which ones I replaced. Probably those in horizontal deflection and power supply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I am using overscan only in monochrome mode Unfortunately there is not so many demos for mono. I know only 2 - Jirka Lamac demo and the Earth from Baky. Is there some other which I do not know? There are a couple but I can't remember their names right now (one was by New Trend IIRC?). Also there is a fullscreen in mono! If you look in pouet and sort the st prods with date it should be one added this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puppetmark Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 (edited) Hi team, Ive done a search of the forum and cant find a how to guide on how to expand the image on standard atari monitor. Screen is small as is without the wasted border space. So is the technical adjustment to make it bigger very hard? Also does anyone know why Atari designed such a border in the monitor? Seems silly but there must have been some reason? John NEW ZEALAND Just another thought. You can build a VGA adapter relatively inexpensively and use a VGA monitor for High Resolution and the image will be edge to edge. I know it is not the same as using real atari hardware but it works quite well, and its nice to do word processing on a 17 inch monitor! Here are the instructions: st_vga.zip Edited October 26, 2007 by puppetmark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mons2b Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Too big border (small pic) on Atari monochrome (SM 124) may be result of old electrolyt capacitors.It is known issue. I had such problem, but can not say now exactly which ones I replaced. Probably those in horizontal deflection and power supply. the border i was talking about is on Atari colour monitor.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 There is also a mod available for the mono monitor which causes the borders to be smaller (ie - like adjusting H and VSize on the old style CRT monitors). Mine's had it done, although I'm not sure on the actual details of the mod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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