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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!iank
- From: iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy)
- Subject: Re: Missing Mode Promotion
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.010737.7463@microsoft.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:07:37 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <934118104127@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> <38643@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Keywords: aga promotion a1200
- Lines: 26
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- In article <38643@cbmvax.commodore.com> ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals) writes:
- >In article <934118104127@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> STUCS206@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
- >>==============================================================================
- >>After a few weeks of fiddling with my A1200 I still havn't sussed out Mode
- >>Promotion. Ticking the box seems to have absolutly no effect (no screen reset
- >>or anything). I have a 1960 monitor (yes, I KNOW its crap) and have got the
- >>Multisync, Pal and DblPal monitor types in the drawer. Adding the VGA only
- >>type causes wierd effects such as all of the higher resolution screens scrollin
- >>g horizontaly.
- >
- >First of all, since you have the 1960, you have no need to use VGAOnly. It
-
- This is not true. I cannot get a screen centered on my 1960 without the
- VGAOnly monitor driver. However, the productivity screens end up
- scrolling horizontally a few pixels. So I don't use them. I use
- DBLNTSC and everything works fine.
-
- The AGA chips put out a really funky signal that seem to not work so well
- on my 1960, thus I use the VGAOnly driver.
-
- Ian.
-
- P.S. Mode promotion works finr on my A1200. It of course will not
- work with hardware hitting games or poorly written software.
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