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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon Resolution, Audio Sampling
- Message-ID: <9914@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:17:29 GMT
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- baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
-
- >warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
-
- >>[SC1224] doesn't
- >>HAVE 480 scanlines to use! The VGA/MultiSync monitors will not experience
- >>the flicker - just as they don't on the Amiga.
-
- > Hold on there partner - maybe you forgot just how that interlaced
- >stuff works - you scan the picture, skipping every other line of the output
- >video, and then fill it in on the next Vblank of the monitor.
-
- Well if they don't support 480 scanlines non-interlaced on a monitor that
- can handle it, then it's useless. I doubt that would be the case. I think
- the interlaced mode will just be so that poor old SC1224's (like mine) can
- at least get SOMETHING out of the 480-line modes. My bet is it works just
- as on the Amiga - interlaced for cheapo monitors, non-interlaced for multi's.
-
- > the part of supporting the SC1224 was a _good_ idea. After
- >all, remember - who will be a big portion of Falcon buyers?
-
- Yes, let's face it. Atari has done The Right Thing. I was discussing with a
- fellow the merits of excluding TT-High and creating a super-set of TT-Low
- and TT-Medium in the 640x480x256col mode. I think it is right on the mark.
- They have to keep the costs down. And I think they have.
-
-
- >>Question: will 1280x480 interlaced be possible with a MultiSync?
-
- > I doubt it. Since it looks like you are looking at a 640 max (monitor)
-
- Oops, doubled the wrong figure... I meant "640x960"... too much bubbly-black-
- american-culture that day.
-
-
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- Warwick
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