home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: god.bel.alcatel.be!usenet
- From: Evert de Vos <vosev@sh.bel.alcatel.be>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Q: MONITORS AND OVERSCAN
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:28:31 +0200
- Organization: Alcatel/Bell
- Message-ID: <3177B11F.1CFBAE39@sh.bel.alcatel.be>
- References: <cecodere.78.31727EFD@andrew.sca.usherb.ca> <317781BE.7084@ford.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: btk048.bsg.bel.alcatel.be
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
- X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m)
-
- > > I just bought myself an old Amiga 500 computer, but the o
- > > monitor was entriely broken (1084S ? is that possible), I would like
- > > to know, was this monitor able to do overscan (640x400x16c) proprely without
- > > flicker (in that case I will repair it), or would it be better off to buy a
- > > new monitor ?? (640x200x16c kills my eyes)
-
- Are people still buying A500's? Funny.
- 1084S is possible yes, I myself have one.
- Overscan does not depend on the monitor, but on the OS.
- If you have kick 2.0 or higher, you will be able to use overscan.
- If you still have kick 1.3 or lower, not without tricks.
-
- Evert
-