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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!mits!paetau
- From: paetau@mits.mdata.fi (Rasmus Paetau)
- Subject: Re: Falcon Resolutions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.185852.16721@mits.mdata.fi>
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- References: <BtILG9.Knz@rice.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:58:52 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <BtILG9.Knz@rice.edu> vjrao@owlnet.rice.edu (Vinay Julapalli Rao) writes:
- >The following message describes the resolution modes on the Falcon 030:
- >
- >
- >Resolutions available on the Atari Falcon030
- >(c) 1992 Atari Corp. Written by John Townsend
- >=========================================================================
- >This document may be re-printed again and again as long as the Atari
- >copyright remains intact.
- >=========================================================================
- >
-
- [Stuff deleted]
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- > 4 color, line-doubling, VGA: 320x240, 4 colors, 2 planes
- > 16 color, line-doubling, VGA: 320x240, 16 colors, 4 planes
- > 256 color, line-doubling, VGA: 320x240, 256 colors, 8 planes
- > True color, line-doubling, VGA: 320x240, true color
-
- [More stuff deleted]
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- > 4 color, line-doubling, VGA: 640x240, 4 colors, 2 planes
- > 16 color, line-doubling, VGA: 640x240, 16 colors, 4 planes
- > 256 color, line-doubling, VGA: 640x240, 256 colors, 8 planes
-
- What does this line-doubling mean?
-
- [Even more stuff deleted]
-
- >independently. Special Note: On a VGA monitor, overscan is "faked".. since the
- >video hardware doesn't have the capability to do overscan on a VGA monitor, we
- >made it so that if a overscan mode is set on a VGA monitor, you still see the
- >normal size screen, but the screen is a window onto the bigger overscanned
- >image. Make sense? We did this for compatibility. This way if a game that has
- >an overscanned starup picture can use the same pic on both the VGA monitor and
- >the TV monitor. Pretty cool, eh? <grin>
-
- Is the Multisync overscan "real" ?
-
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