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- From: kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Graphics Modes
- Message-ID: <36786@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 04:42:36 GMT
- References: <petter.084l@pnilsen.UUCP> <BwunsK.MKJ@news.iastate.edu> <doiron.0gpv@starpt.UUCP> <BxBHLK.H0x@news.iastate.edu>
- Reply-To: kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking)
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- In article <BxBHLK.H0x@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >In article <doiron.0gpv@starpt.UUCP> doiron@starpt.UUCP (Glenn Doiron) writes:
- >>
- >>Dingaling. DblPAL and DblNTSC give you 640x512 and 640x400 screens on ECS.
- >>Absolutely no scan doubling. Can't be done without the Alice chip.
- >
- > I never said that scan doubling could be done with the ECS. Scan doubling
- >(more properly called "line doubling") is a different entity from the DblPAL
- >and DblNTSC modes.
-
- Oh really? Then why can't I get DblNTSC:High Res and DblNTSC:Low Res on my
- A3000? Very simple, Marc: DblNTC and DblPAL use special features of Alice
- to get those resolutions and scan rates. If ECS could do scan doubling, then
- we could also do mode promotion on A3000's, but it can't so we don't. Sheesh.
-
- >---
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >--------------------------------------------------
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