NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/12522

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From: [e-mail] (V.G.J.M. Stoks)
Subject: Re: Falcon Resolution, Audio Sampling
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 09:53:37 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Glen Deardorff) writes:

>I know that the standard resolutions that the Falcon supports is no higher
>than 640 x 480.  But isn't it possible to go up to something like 1280 x 1024
>or 800 x 600, with a video card and SVGA monitor?  I was told by a local
>Atari dealer who had seen the Falcon that this was the case.  I'd love to
>fantasize about getting one, but I'm afraid that higher resolution is a
>principal concern of mine.

Same here. You can't seriously multitask (and that's the way Atari
seems to be going) with such a small screen. We want many windows open
at once, so there has to be room for them on screen. Anyway, I think I
remember reading somewhere that a programmable overscan will be built
in, and that the Falcon could easily (and cheaply) be upgraded to about
900x1200. That sounds more like it, huh? Problem Is, monitors above 768x1024
rapidly become unaffordable (at least color monitors do). BTW, if I
remember correctly, it was someone from Atari who said it. Makes it
less of a rumour. It sounds believable anyway, since OverScan does
quite good work in an ST for little dinero. Shouldn't be too hard to
integrate some kind of overscan in the video circuitry.

[stuff deleted about which I know nothing anyway]

>Muchas Gracias

De nada.

Sander SToks,
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