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- From: jow@hcast.uucp (Juergen Weinelt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Trivial questions about A2024(And info)
- Message-ID: <jow.012d@hcast.uucp>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 14:55:24 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.220454.20361@daimi.aau.dk>
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- In article <1992Aug13.220454.20361@daimi.aau.dk> pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes:
- >
- > The interesting part is, that you get an additional resolution of
- >1008 x 1024, in up to four shades of gray, and with _no_ interlace
- >flicker. These resolutions draw hard on your amiga, and therefore
- >there are two modes, 15kHz and 30kHz. What kind of flicker is introduced
- >in the 15kHz mode, I know not.
-
- Wrong. You get a 10Hz and a 15Hz mode, but these numbers have nothing
- to do with display flicker. The 2024 builds its display (internal
- buffer) from several consecutive Amiga display frames.
-
- 15Hz mode
-
- +-------+-------+
- | | |
- | | |
- +-------+-------+
- | | |
- | | |
- +-------+-------+
-
-
- 10Hz mode
-
- +----+----+----+
- | | | |
- | | | |
- +----+----+----+
- | | | |
- | | | |
- +----+----+----+
-
- You can actually watch this if you select A2024 mode and connect a normal
- monitor instead of the '24 to your Amiga - you'll see that the amiga rapidly
- displays 4 (or 6) different frames (probably some copper list trick).
-
- The A2024 hardware collects those display frames and stores them internally,
- building a single large display frame from them. This is then displayed with
- 50Hz (or is it 60Hz? I'm not sure). The only problem is that rapid changes
- on the screen (scrolling text in your favourite editor) will come out
- in tiles :-) it takes some fractions of a second (1/10 in 10Hz mode) until
- the display has "settled". This applies ONLY TO 1008x1024 / 1008x800 mode,
- NOT to normal de-interlaced 640x512 / 640x400 mode.
-
- >This is what I know, and believe to be true. Now the question: I have
- >got the impression, that you need no additional hardware to use
- >the 1000x1024 mode under 2.0 with, say, and A500+ ? Is this true,
- >or do I need some kind of de-interlacer? What are the monitors dimensions,
-
- _No_ additional hard/software needed. Monitor dimensions are 15'' (so I'm
- told, I never took the time to measure this myself).
-
- >(14", 16", what?), and are there any other drawbacks/advantages, than
- >the ones mentioned here? Are the pixels in any way viewable, or
- >is it like 1400x512 on PAL(Superhires), where you _really_ go beyond
- >the resolution of the display?
-
- The pixels are viewable, but prepare to use at least an 11pt font, 15pt
- are much better. Just imagine topaz8 - you'd get 128 lines of text on
- your screen - can you read this without a looking glass ? :-)
-
- The A2024 display is usually a little unsharp in the corners, but the
- rest of the display is O.K.
-
- -- Juergen
-
- o _ Juergen Weinelt, Germany (ECG116)
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