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- From: cardinal@arc.ab.ca (Garry Cardinal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Amiga NTSC Line Doubling
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 15:24:22 GMT
- Organization: Alberta Research Council
- Message-ID: <1597.6609T504T424@arc.ab.ca>
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- >>roland.bengtsson@mbox3.swipnet.se (Roland Bengtsson) wrote:
- >>>
- >>> >:Somebody had mentioned to me that the Amiga (the 3000 to be specific)
- >>> >:had
- >>> >: the capabilites to do NTSC and PAL line doubling.
- >>>
- >>>I don't know what this "Faroudja" is, but I have a A3000 and it simply
- >>>double the PAL signal 15 KHZ to VGA 30 KHZ so I can use a standard
- >>>VGA-monitor for PC to watch PAL & NTSC screens. It's a great trick indeed,
- >>>and it's the only Amiga that handle this by default.
-
- >>Actually, this mode promotion comes with AGA machines.
-
- >No, it doesn't. The A3000 actually scans an interlaced Hi-Res display and
- >buffers it in its own deinterlacer memory, before outputting it as a 31kHz
- >display. Try selecting PAL Hi-Res Interlaced on a 1200/4000 without mode
- >promotion. It will still flicker.
-
- >The AGA chipset includes NEW modes, it doesn't fix the old ones.
-
- I think the question was about interlace gap filling.
- When your display is set for 640x200 there are voids in the display
- because the monitor refreshes the frames on the crt phosphor in the
- same place.
-
- The method shift the odd frames filling the void is to make the display
- interlace. Lacer is a pd program to accomplish this.
- Workbench 2.04 and above came with a new icon called "Lacer" that didn't
- seem to do anything. It can be used from CLI "sys:tools/lacer 1" to turn
- interlace ON, "sys:tools/lacer 0" to turn interlace OFF.
-
- Some genlocks require interlace mode ON for correct operation.
-
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- May the coyote wail slightly off key
- Garry Cardinal <cardinal@arc.ab.ca> Electric Indian
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