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- From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
- Subject: Re: Vhat? No flickerfixer in A4k? Vhat ees thees?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.140137.17057@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:01:37 GMT
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- In article <Bxuotn.KnK@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.202918.25113@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- >>In article <BxtLp7.JnE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >>>
- >>>Wait, did I hear right? The A4000 has no flicker-fixer?! But if the
- >>>A3000 had one, why wouldn't they put it in the A4000? Now we have to go
- >>>out & buy a f-fixer for $200-$300? *SIGH* Geez. Of course, this is
- >>>what I heard.. if I'm wrong, please correct me. :)
- >>The A4000's method of flicker-fixing in software and hardware has several
- >>advantages over the A3000 approach. every
- >>screen is centered properly on the display and looks better than the A3000
- >>does when using the same monitor.
- >
- > That is not what has been said around these newsgroups. If I had a dime
- >for every person who has posted about the problems with screens not being
- >centered correctly on the A4000, I'd buy a workstation. The A4000 seems to
- >have exactly the same problems as any other Amiga without a flicker fixer:
- >when you setup the monitor to center certain modes, other modes go off-center,
- >often by quite a lot. The advantage of a flicker-fixer is that it boosts
- >all non-30nS 15Khz modes so that all can be centered properly. You just do
- >not have centering problems on the A3000.
-
- Marc, if you don't believe me, please feel free to come on down and see it in
- action. I have been using a dblNTSC 676x473 64 color Workbench with mode
- promotion turned on and every screen is centered properly. The RLoginVT
- screen that I'm typing this on is centered, DPaint IV is centered, ADPro is
- centered, as is everything else that I have tried. I can use the dblPAL,
- Productivity, and Euro72 modes for the Workbench and everything remains
- properly centered.
-
- As for the A3000 not having centering probelms, that is where you are wrong.
- When I run the same programs on the A3000, I have to use left-Amiga-C to
- center the screens (some sort of commodity).
-
- Don't make the mistake of trying to tell me what the A4000 and A3000 can
- or cannot do based on what you have heard. I have both of the machines and
- know what their respective capabilities are, and that is a fact that you can
- count on.
-
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
-
- Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
- skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
-
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