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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: *A1200 Screen Modes
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 06:17:39 GMT
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- Greg Jung (jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
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- : In article <51425.pede0135@gold.tc.umn.edu>, "T. Michael Pederson" <pede0135@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes:
- : |>On 27 Dec 1995 17:19:01 GMT,
- : |>Roland Bengtsson <roland.bengtsson@mbox3.swipnet.se> wrote:
- : |>
- : |>>
- : |>>>I'm thinking of getting a 17" monitor to run off my A1200/030/50Mhz
- : |>>>with 14meg Ram.
- : |>>>I've got to share it with my Pentium, so I thought I'd better check
- : |>>
- : |>>Maybe I'm the wrong guy to answer this because I don't own a A1200.
- : |>>But the important here is the horizental sync. PC have 31 Khz but almost
- : |>>all Amiga-games run at 15 Khz. So with a standard PC-monitor (SuperVGA) you can't
- : |>>play any games. I think there exists a monitor called 1438 that handle both these
- : |>>syncs. I believe this is a 14" monitor.
- : |>>
- : |>>And yes, I think a 17" monitor and your A1200 can handle 640x512. But you must alse have right cabel.
- : |>>And try to test the monitor with the A1200 before you buy it.
- : |>
- : |>Hello,
- : |> A 17" monitor and an A1200 can handle up to 1280x1024 - DoublePAL
- : |>SuperHiRes Interlace. Draw/refresh is rather slow though. If you use an
- : |>SVGA monitor you'll be limited to VGAonly and possibly DoublePAL,
- : |>DoubleNTSC and the other ~31 kHz screenmodes depending on to what range of
- : |>signals the monitor will sync.
- : |>--
- : Check out the pricing and specs of the 1438 when it is available. OK,
- : I suppose the "14" means that many inches, but it will sync down to
- : the NTSC/PAL and probably to the 48kHz range desired by your pentium.
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- : To use most other 17" monitors for all screen modes, you want to get
- : the new scan-doubling device that'll convert 15->30, much less than
- : the price difference of an NTSC-capable monitor.
-
- Both Idek and Mitsubishi have 17" monitors able to handle
- all AGA/ECS/OCS modes and even some of the higher modes offered
- by graphics cards.
- Other vendors with similar monitors are possible.
- Cheers...
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