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- From: hankduck@postoffice.ptd.net (hankduckman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Using 17in monitor/A2000? I need ideas
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 03:41:44 GMT
- Organization: ProLog - PenTeleData, Inc.
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- BN> On 4 Apr 1996 11:20:06 GMT, hankduckman articulated:
- BN> <> >>On Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:06:38 +0800, Brian Scott articulated:
- BN> <> >>[snip]
- BN> <> >><> The IDEK works and looks well on a friends 1200.
- BN> <>
- BN> <> BS> And on mine, some of the best money spent for a Monitor
- BN> <>
- BN> <> >>If you get a graphics card and don't also get a flicker
- BN> <> >>fixer, you will lose the 15kHz. screenmodes. This includes
- BN> <> >>games, the GURU screen and the Early Startup Menu. I am, of course,
- BN> <> >>asuming that your monitor only syncs down to 30kHz. or so.
- BN> <>
- BN> <> >>I have a Picasso II in my A2000, but I also have a flicker
- BN> <> >>fixer.
- BN> <>
- BN> <> BS> Probably an obviously dumb question, but ;-)
- BN> <> BS> Hopefully soon I'l be getting a Picasso for my A2K, based on what
- BN> <> BS> I've read, The IDEK will be able to handle all the screen modes
- BN> <> BS> from the Picasso w/o a Flicker Fixer ??
- BN> <>
- BN> <> You can see my setup below. I have no flicker fixer and get no visible
- BN> flicker
- BN> <> on any of my picasso mode screens I run an 800x600 WB screen with 256
- BN> colors.
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- BN> What about the native Amiga screenmodes?
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- Hi res, lo res, super hi res and multiscan:productivity modes run without flicker.
- All interlaced modes still flicker.
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- Cordially;
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- Hank Duckman
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- from beautiful northwest New Jersey where the deer and the bear run free
- Amiga 2000, GVP '040@33, 64 megs ram,
- PicassoII, Emplant, Opalvision, VLab
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