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Anyone willing to do the 640x480 Upgrade for me?

Submitted by fu on November 3, 2004 - 4:11am. Colour Classic

hi gang!

well i got a bit over^excited and tried to do the vga upgrade but i kinda f***ed the analog board up Undecided...

...got lucky though and found a second CC in a junkyard sale, wich is something close to perfect...

..so if any wizard is located some place in europe and could do the surgery for me please let me know [fu@newted.com]...

cheers,

fu

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What went wrong with your fir

Submitted by eeun on November 3, 2004 - 5:48am.

What went wrong with your first crack at the analog board? Have you tried undoing the modification?
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Re: Anyone willing to do the 640x480 Upgrade for me?

Submitted by StuartBell on November 3, 2004 - 8:58am.
fu wrote:

..so if any wizard is located some place in europe and could do the surgery for me please let me know [fu@newted.com]...

Where abouts in Europe are you? If the UK, I may be able to help.

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...i cracked that particular

Submitted by fu on November 3, 2004 - 6:03pm.

...i cracked that particular part of the board, so no hope of reversing the process...

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stuart, normally i'm based

Submitted by fu on November 3, 2004 - 6:08pm.

stuart,

normally i'm based in london, right now i'm travelling across europe (i'm a filmmaker on a hectic schedule), so we could arrange something i guess... email me:

many thanks

fu

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Im in the uk, and would be ha

Submitted by martakz on November 14, 2004 - 1:04pm.

Im in the uk, and would be happy to try and repair your cracked board..the first one.

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I also have a CC wich I would like to upgrade w.LC 575 Board

Submitted by jakobs05 on January 23, 2005 - 12:00pm.

Hello - I wonder if you or anyone would help me with an LC 575 upgrade as recently discussed - or the 480 x 640 VGA upgarde.

- I would like to upgrade my CC with the a 575 board
- I have one but I do not know if it works just like that

Would you or anyone help me or advice in this topic ?

- I have the Mystic link -

Best regards from
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VGA vs. Hi-Res

Submitted by Howiem on January 25, 2005 - 8:02am.

I read on another board that the Hi-Res mod will tax the analog board. Is this true? Also, where can I find the step-by-step instructions for the vga mod?

Can I by-pass the whole mod thing and just install a version of 8.0? Will 8.0 work but, not run the monitor at 640x480?

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Re: I also have a CC wich I would like to upgrade w.LC 575 Boar

Submitted by dead_elvis on January 25, 2005 - 4:54pm.
jakobs05 wrote:
- I have one but I do not know if it works just like that

Not sure what you mean, are you asking if it works without any modification?

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Would you or anyone help me or advice in this topic ?

- I have the Mystic link -

If you mean you have looked over the instructions for the Mystic modification at the Color Classic FAQ page, then you have all you need to know Eye-wink

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Re: VGA vs. Hi-Res

Submitted by dead_elvis on January 25, 2005 - 5:01pm.
Howiem wrote:
I read on another board that the Hi-Res mod will tax the analog board. Is this true? Also, where can I find the step-by-step instructions for the vga mod?

Can I by-pass the whole mod thing and just install a version of 8.0? Will 8.0 work but, not run the monitor at 640x480?

I am sort of curious too, now that substantial time has gone by, has anyone found the hi-res mod to be less reliable than the VGA mod? Perhaps we should have a thread with an informal survey of which mod has had more analogue board failures?

Getting 640x480 is independent from the OS. OS 8 should install on a Mystic, but IIRC OS 8 won't install on a 68030 machine without some special hacking, so a stock CC is out.

Step by step VGA mod instructions are linked to at the CC FAQ

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Any possibility of reducing t

Submitted by moosemanmoo on January 26, 2005 - 1:09am.

Any possibility of reducing the risk of analogue board failures should be taken into account. Those things are hard to come by.

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What is IIRC, and will 8.1 install...

Submitted by Howiem on January 27, 2005 - 11:08pm.

What is IIRC, and will 8.1 install on the 575 board in the cc without modificatin? I thought the only thing the vga mod did was get you the 640x480 results. I really only want to run the cc with the faster board so I can run ms flight simulator faster. will ms/fs run on a 575 board at the non 640x480 resolution?

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IIRC is short for "If I Recal

Submitted by dead_elvis on January 27, 2005 - 11:50pm.

IIRC is short for "If I Recall Correctly."

I don't know anything about requirements for MS Flight Simulator (some programs require 640x480), but this bit from the CC FAQ should answer your question about installing 8.1 *without* doing any 640x480 mods. I haven't done it myself though (my mystic has the vga mod):

http://colourclassicfaq.com/mobo/mystic.shtml#Q2.1.3

In other words, it appears that you must do *something*, either in software or hardware, to run a 575 board, you can't just swap it in.

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