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- From: c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann Lambertsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 15:57:22 GMT
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- On Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:50:32 GMT David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- > On 24 Mar 1996 06:01:09 GMT, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- > >Starts at? What exactly do you mean by starts at? 640x200x4 colors nobody
- > >uses, why would they when they can use more? Again you are either trying
- > >your best to be stupid or it comes natural for you.
-
- > Either you believe everyone has an AGA Amiga with sw flickerfixer, or
- > A3000 w/hw flickerfixer, or you're just whining. I have this
- > overwhelming impress you speak out of one side of your mouth when
- > talking about Amiga prices (ie no monitor - use your TV!) and another
- > when telling me "no one" uses 640x200x4.
-
- > >>640x400x256 colors. It's a joke. No OLE, no Internet, no networking,
- > >
- > >Max? Again you are the joke. 640x400? max? No you are clueless to Amiga
- > >standard resolutions (without gfx card). 800x600 / 724x566 , depending
- > >on the monitor driver you use, these are the max resoultions with no
- > >flicker. Higher iwth flicker. With a gfx card however they are the same or
- > >greater than whatever you use on an ibm (which is using a gfx card lamer)
- > >Don't show such ignorance.
-
- > It's no ignorence. Everything else is a customized graphics mode.
- > The 640x400 is the maximum practical non-overscanned resolution of the
- > non-AGA Amiga. Yes, my Amiga did 724x484, but I suspect most Amiga
- > owners didn't fiddle quite as much with it as I did.
-
- Starting with ECS, you get 640x512 non-interlaced as nominal resolution.
- You can then add a bit of overscan to fully utilize your monitor.
-
- [snip]
-
- > >You plug hardware in on an AMiga, copy the device driver to the devs directory,
- > >and you are done.
-
- > Really? You're telling me that's what you did to get the graphics
- > card working? I don't think so.
-
- Why not? Don't tell me you are *that* ignorant.
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- Regards,
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