I also became an instant fan of NEC 1990 and now see it as THE LCD panel for all my retro computing activities.īack to Atari, one problem solved, I was hit with another disaster. Most users who bough the adapter would also invest $50 and get the same monitor to avoid anti aliasing and have a perfect image display. Fortunately the NEC monitor goes for $50 USD on eBay and matches Atari TT in case color. The black bars on top and bottom are the lacking 64 pixels, but they are almost not noticeable.
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The screen was 100% perfectly sharp like you were looking on Atari ST emulator on a PC or Mac. It did have 1:1 mode as well as custom aspect ratios and most advanced display settings known to an LCD panel. And then someone has recommended me a NEC 1990 LCD panel:
Everything was getting anti aliased and blurred. I went through endless monitors, new and used, user manuals, specs, computer junkyards like HSC and WeirdStuff, etc. But who would want to waste a 24″ monitor to run such a small resolution on, with large black border. Unfortunately to my utter surprise almost zero monitors out there had this mode! Only the newer, larger Dell monitors had it. I have assumed this would work just fine if monitor was set to so called 1:1 mode or expansion/scaling off. This is a 64 pixels difference vertically and also 4:3 to 5:4 aspect change. TT High mode is 1280×960 where as most LCD panels operate in 1280×1024 mode. They were delighted so see this:Īlso in the mean time I started testing more and more LCD panels and realized a rather big issue.
Being out of touch with Atari for quite a long time I realized that most of the interested users are musicians who still use TT for Cubase, and would like to have a larger and more modern LCD screen. I have ordered qty 25 of the unit to be made and knowing the final price went to look for more serious commitments from Atari users who previously expressed interest. After a few days they have added a small bread board with a circuit to shift the horizontal sync and a voltage converter to obtain -5V needed for ECL components. The signal was shifted a little bit, and the board was operating from a lab bench power supply. They have made this device:Īnd Atari TT was operating in the monochrome 1280×960 mode on an LCD panel! Well nearly there… After a few weeks I’ve got an email that I can come in ad see a preliminary results. I have found a helpful company with an extensive expertise in video signal processing, described the problem, they understood, gave me a reasonable quote, I delivered my Atari computer and waited patiently. Fortunately for last several years I have been living in the Silicon Valley, which is abundant with required skills.
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It was obvious I needed a professional help. Over last 20 years or so adapters like that were made and tried before by much more experienced people, but still with rather crappy results. I was not the first to come up with such an idea. I have rather limited experience in electronic circuit design. These were made to allow SUN/SGI/HP/NeXT workstations to be hooked up to a VGA projector.ĭespite hours spent attempting to get these working by myself and other Atari users alike, this just didn’t work.Īt this time the only viable approach would be to make such adapter from scratch and specifically for the Atari TT. before VGA got it’s high resolution modes via VESA extensions.ĭuring the research phase I came across a device made by Extron, which basically converts ECL to VGA signal. These are basically more interference resistant and therefore allow higher bandwidths.ĮCL signaling was used for high resolution monochrome monitors for Sun, SGI, DEC, HP, NeXT, etc. So what is ECL signal? Without going to too much in to the details ECL is a differential signal much like LVD SCSI. TL DR I got stuck on lack of a specialized Atari “high resolution” 1280×960 CRT monitor, which operates using ECL rather than VGA signaling. In the previous article I explained how I got hooked up on Atari UNIX and brief efforts in the hardware department.
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