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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Subject: Re: A-4000/1960 monitor skew again
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:29:07 GMT
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- Ben Scott (bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
-
- > A client of mine has bought an A-4000 and a 1960. Of course, the 4000 is
- > beautiful, wonderful, and all that.
-
- Agreed! Its a great machine.
-
- > side. 800x600, 640x400 DBLNTSC and a few others are particularly bad. In
-
- Interesting; I had that same problem with DBLNTSC, but not with SUPER72
- (which is the 800x600 mode).
-
- One thing you could try is to use Multiscan:productivity instead of
- DBLNTSC. I think that is a roughly similar resolution, and also
- flicker-free. It might center better. (Or it might not. Who knows).
- There are a few other 640x400 or 640x480 modes also that you could try.
- Maybe one will center OK. I'm amazed there are differences between
- individual machines though; I love 800x600 mode, and it centers great.
-
- > 1280x400 Euro-36 mode, which is fine for Workbench (until you try to run
-
- You really think 1280x400 is fine for workbench? I find the aspect
- ratio so bizarre that its worthless for workbench, but is OK (and even
- quite nice) for displaying images as long as you can correct for the odd
- aspect ratio.
-
- - steve
-
- PS - one note about Imagine - it copes with extra resolution very
- nicely. I run it in 896x628, and it uses the full screen resolution in
- all the editors almost as if it was born doing that.
-