leech Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 3 minutes ago, DarkLord said: Right... Keep dreamin' buddy. Can't blame me for trying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+nurmix Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 I haven't tried my [two] Dell 27" with my STE yet (although I'm using one of them right now on my home PC as I type this, and it's got a great picture). I'm waiting on a switchable monochrome/color VGA adapter I ordered from an ebay seller in the UK: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266052626971 I do have a monochrome VGA adapter I got several years ago, but didn't manage to find the time to dig out the STE this past weekend. I also have a friend's older 1040 STf in the garage I'll test with. I'll report back with screenshots once I test everything out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Wow, lowest price I've seen. Dell on ebay has them for $118.99 with free shipping. https://www.ebay.com/itm/225423082869 At that price, went ahead and picked up one more for my computer room. Price after tax was around $125.00. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 2 hours ago, TheNameOfTheGame said: Wow, lowest price I've seen. Dell on ebay has them for $118.99 with free shipping. https://www.ebay.com/itm/225423082869 At that price, went ahead and picked up one more for my computer room. Price after tax was around $125.00. Ha, now that is rude. I don't need more monitors, but at that price... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Well I needed one more and didn't buy one during the last sale since I had Christmas shopping expenses. Now I'm glad I waited after seeing the price on this new sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustynutt Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 (edited) Just caught up on the thread. Vertical lines with Atari video, yes. Think what I'm seeing (eyes are older than Darklord's) is they "seem" worse at lower resolutions, but think it's the changing of dot pitch, kind of like blowing up an image to the point where quality degrades is what it resembles. Text was fuzzier in mono, I thought, at least TOS fonts. I wouldn't want to write a book though in any ST interlaced mode Maybe playing with NVDI and installed system fonts could make it more gooder. What I found odd was most everyone is saying the vertical "lines" are most noticable on dark/black background. To me they really stood out on the "normal" Atari green, and were virtually unseen when loading Ease desktop, with black background and desk pic. Didn't see that anyone else tested a different desktop. Ease is heavy, but the icons, boxes and such are too notch. Might also be something true about buffering the video output, or playing with resistor values. Forget what I'd done, but the display revealed some ghosting on a white background, making me think it's not an RGB color space thing, seems a signal issue. Had to look close, but it caught my eye. And I'd have to go back and look, but don't recall seeing the vertical jail bars during boot, before GEM loads. The member that had the monitor hooked up to test equipment maybe could chime back in with any new test data. I don't have any games on the HDD (rocks flying), did run several demos, they all displayed nicely in RGB mode. Honestly, demos, and a few games are mainly why I jumped on this for RGB use. The vertical lines are present in VGA mode too, again Ease cleaned things up. This was checked under standard Falcon modes, unless a demo used a custom setting (the aforementioned test equipment could verified). It's also Afterburner equipped, runs the bus as 23MHz, 040 CPU and fast RAM at 46MHz. TOS ROM is edited to keep the Blitter at 1/2 CPU clock (11.5MHz). With the Afterburner, have a NOVA adapter and ATI MACH 64 with 4mb VRAM ISA card. First thing I'd noticed was most the resolution configurations for the previous monitor didn't work. Think it was an early 17" NEC Multisync LCD (like a bunch of others, took 6 or 7 monitors back to the thrift store after buying these ) Looking the data sheet for the SE2722H it has a pretty wide band with, but using the video mode generator to enter preset display modes really didn't work for other than 640*480/800*600 24bit. So I'm not sure if it's just fussy, or the video mode generator is showing it's age (mid 90's soft). Unfortunately, NVDI can only configure ET4000 cards. So not sure what the magic is there. Just have to spend the time hitting each resolution's sweet spot. On the ATI, std VGA at 24bit is rock solid. Looks better than the (bought 2) display output on the ASUS quad-core income tax machine I'm really impressed with it, know it didn't sound like it, but at $118, I'm going to buy 2 more, one for the toy hauler, and one for the wife's laptop when "docked". Still think there's a lot left on the table experimenting with the video signal signal. But it will never be a 1224 Edited February 27 by rustynutt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Hmm, I never tried this monitor with a Falcon. I'm using it with my Mega STe and an Exxos version of the UBE VGA adapter. I've been pleased with the results so far, especially the size. 48 minutes ago, rustynutt said: But it will never be a 1224 It's very doubtful that anything else ever will be... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustynutt Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 6 hours ago, DarkLord said: Hmm, I never tried this monitor with a Falcon. I'm using it with my Mega STe and an Exxos version of the UBE VGA adapter. I've been pleased with the results so far, especially the size. It's very doubtful that anything else ever will be... Oh, they are definitely to be bought in 6 packs I'd sold all my ST/e/TT before and just after moving to Oregon. Only Falcons left. These are the cats meow for the ST resolutions. Not sure if you remember, I'd posted a hack to get the generic Chinese RGB 2 HDMI to work on the Jag. On top of that,the Falcon also had a quirk where when connected, the box shorted the Falcon video. Forget the pin now, I'd have to look back. But think the ST and Falcon probably have the same pin outs in respect to RGB mode, and whatever that was (pretty sure it was DC) if bleeding across the cable, could be causing it. Or I could be full of it 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chri O. Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 This is just a thread bump 😀 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jfcatari Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 On Sale at Dell directly for $119.99 https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gb8j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 3 hours ago, Jfcatari said: On Sale at Dell directly for $119.99 https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gb8j It's a great deal. Make sure to leave a note to Dell that eightbit did not yet receive that commission check! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jfcatari Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 (edited) I just got the Dell I ordered from a seller on ebay today. One word ...wow, my STE never looked so good at 27"! Anyone looking for an LCD monitor that supports 15.7kHz, this is the one to get. Edited April 22 by Jfcatari 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+H454 Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 BUMP $80 off at MICRO CENTER for $119.99. https://www.microcenter.com/product/638580/dell-se2722h-27-full-hd-(1920-x-1080)-75hz-led-monitor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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