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- From: mave@in.net (John J. Maver, Jr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: I have a Picasso now, and boy do I have problems.
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 04:06:38 GMT
- Organization: INTERNET Indiana
- Message-ID: <1893.6584T1379T2840@in.net>
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- Maybe I am stupid, but...I have an a4000/040 with 12Mb ram. I can run my
- Workbench in 32 colors in DoubleNTSC Hires Lace NoFlicker pretty well and do.
- I have a 1942 monitor. I have a big screen, a decent amount of colors, and
- very little flicker.
-
- Then my PicassoII arrives. It has 2 megs of its own memory. I dload the
- new drivers and software from Olafs WebPage, get everything installed and
- BOOM! everything sucks!!
-
- AFAIK the 1942 only supports a Horizontal Frequency of 31kHz, so that is
- what I choose. Now on the same monitor, I have a screen that flickers
- horribly at 800x600 and goes way off the screen. I try 640x480- less flicker,
- but still way off the screen. I then make it so the screen size is only
- 745x600 in Screenmode prefs, and it fits, but there is all this grey stuff to
- the right.
-
- Now you are saying to yourself, but what about the colors? Isn't it nice
- to have millions of them at lightspeed? NO!! I do not get millions, I get
- 256. The speed is alright, but not blazing. And there is a longer pause than
- before in switching screens.
-
- So I try to screw with PicassoMode. This is an exercise in futility. I
- try to change any of the sliders, and nothing unless I slam the little box all
- the way to the Left or Right. Then everything moves at random, I can't move
- it back, and I have to start over.
-
- And where the hell is this CyberGfx I keep being taunted with. I look Hi
- and Lo, but it isn't on AmiNet as CyberGFX or CyBERgraphics or anything else.
-
- This has to be easier somehow.
-
- It doesn't make sense that I can't show the same screen size and frequency
- as DbleNTSC Hires Lace NoFlicker and still get 256 or HeavenForbid 24bit!
-
-
- Help me...please?
-
-
- --
- <tsb> John J. Maver, Jr.
- <sb> mave@in.net
- <sb> A4000/040
- She's learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into
- words.
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