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- From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: JAGUAR - graphics, could it be?
- Date: 26 Aug 1992 09:31:46 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Aug25.235523.21248@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <64681@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <64681@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >A very unexcited, Mike writes:
- >
- >>It might use Interlace.... and you are excited about it?
- >
- >>Yuck! That sounds like a nasty form of torture, or perhaps it will
- >
- >...
- >
- >>but everytime you play the game, it gives you this splitting headache.
- >
- >
- >Guess you don't watch TV much, eh, Mike..?
- >
- >If you did, it would give you a splitting headache every time
- >you watched it...
- >
- >Guess what regular TV uses...? Oh no..! Interlace..!!
-
- Oh no! My mother lied to me all those years! She said my headaches
- were from the stupid shows I was watching, and that it was sucking my brain
- out through my eyeballs! I was such a child to believe her. :)
-
- To be honest, I don't watch TV that much, and when I do, it does give
- me headaches. However, I would think that better TVs reduce the more harmful
- effects of an interlaced screen (aside from ELF and whatever other radiation
- that TVs spit out). Isn't there a signal buffering on most (good) TVs so that
- they can display the picture at that magick 60 Hz (is it 50Hz across the
- pond)? If not, it may just be a difference in phosophor, or more likely the
- fact that I generally do not strain to look at a TV as I do not do DTP, etc
- on a TV, where fine resolution would be neccessary.
-
- >(Not that I believe for a second that there's anything like an
- >Atari Jaguar in my immediate future to threaten me with splitting
- >headaches or anything else...)
-
- Yeah, I suppose they would have to sell it before we could go home and
- get our RDA of head-pain. So we will have to make do with getting our RDA
- from the office monitors, or if you can't do that (they installed glare-guards
- on all the monitors - How DARE they?) you can always try looking at the sun
- and seeing how long it takes the "sun ghost" to go away.
-
- For the (sick) humor impared: :)!
-
- >BobR
-
-
- -Mike
-
-