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From: "Alastair Murray" <Alastair.Murray@ukgateway.net>
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 03:19:34 +0100
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Subject: [amos-list] Re: Amos&GFX cards
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From: "Alastair Murray" <Alastair.Murray@ukgateway.net>
>Let me get this straight. If I went out and bought a standard PC monitor
and
>an external scandoubler/flickerfixer, I would not be able to use Amos.
>Right or Wrong?
Rough description:
Because AMOS does not run through the operating system, it's screen output
will ONLY go to the native AMIGA video outputs.
Most standard screen modes (including all the ones AMOS uses) coming from
the native video output can not be displayed on a monitor, only a TV.
Therefore you must use a scandoubler to view this output on a monitor.
If you have a graphics card, you plug your monitor into the card and have
nothing plugged into your native video output.
Programs have to be told via the operating system to retarget their screens
to go through the graphics card instead of the native video outputs.
AMOS doesn't make screens through the operating systems therefore AMOS will
ALWAYS output its display to the native video outputs.
Meaning if you have a graphics card (with no extra features like
passthroughs, monitor switches etc.) then you have nothing plugged into the
port where AMOS sends it`s signals too.
Therefore you cannot see any AMOS screens.
That is the situation a lot of people are in as you can't use an AMIGA very
seriously now a days without a graphics card.
Therefore AMOS has rapidly become practically useless if you want to
distribute your products at all.
The GUI extension helps a bit but limits what can be done.
-Murray
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