Working MFD! :D

After picking up the LCD's on Tuesday and getting disappointed about the resolution for one, I started reading up on the whole multi-screen thing. I downloaded the ATI Control Centre which fixed the resolution problem - native for these screens is 640x480. Sweet, done.

So the playing began. I had never worked with multi-displays before so it was weird seeing the mouse move around... :)

One of the first things I did was to put the good ol' IRC channel in-screen while being able to do other stuff:




Then I started playing with F4 Glass, which for some reason I thought was capable of sending MFD data as well as instruments. Not so, instruments yes, MFD's are a whole different ball game...

After reading up a bit online I found a couple of programs that mirror monitors and I've started playing with that idea until I can be bothered getting into anything too technical.



I'm using a program called Ultra Mon with the add-on MirrorMon from http://www.realtimesoft.com/. You can resize, move, do whatever you want to the area/monitor/window being mirrored. The only limitation that is obvious - if the screen changes or moves, the area mirrored will change as well. Not gonna be a huge problem I don't think, that'll do for now... :)

Hoorah! Just bought a pair of 8" LCD displays with touch-screen. Didn't really need the added function but someday it might be handy... Here's what they look like:


I'll be able to incorporate at least one for the time being and use it as an MFD. For what I've seen I'll need another computer to add any more displays to the configuration so the dual MFD's will still have to wait... At least it gives me a good push to get myself organised and start thinking about a keyboard encoder board.

Having done a bit of research I've got two good choices so far: X-Keys from P.I. Engineering, or one of the boards from Hagstrom Electronics. First I need to save some money after tonight's purchase...

Welcome to my Blog

Well, after a couple of weeks I've changed my blog to this address. Seems to be a pretty nice site... :)

So for anyone who didn't visit my original blog, you didn't miss much! There was only 2 posts with what I use at the moment:


And my attempt to take an LCD monitor from a laptop and plug it to my VGA card. After some research I've come to the conclusion that it is: Very expensive and very technical.

Back to the drawing board then. I'm in the process of buying a couple of LCD screens and maybe one or two CRT's to use as instruments. More news soon...