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- From: kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Graphics Modes
- Message-ID: <36931@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 19:46:26 GMT
- References: <petter.084l@pnilsen.UUCP> <BwunsK.MKJ@news.iastate.edu> <doiron.0gpv@starpt.UUCP> <BxBHLK.H0x@news.iastate.edu> <36786@CBMVAX.COMMODORE.COM> <1992Nov9.170251@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Reply-To: kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Nov9.170251@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be> stud16@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Kurt Haenen) writes:
- >In article <36786@CBMVAX.COMMODORE.COM>, kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
- >>
- >> 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.
- >>
- >
- > The A3000 has got the DblNTSC and DblPAL modes, yes, on the
- >ECS chipset, ... _B_U_T_ ... You are limited by the number of planes
- >you can use in those modes ! The AGA chipset doesn't offer any real
- >new modes, only increase in bandwidth, which is translated into more
- >colors (HAM8 is just that : more colors, although you could see it
- >as a new mode. Personally, I don't !) Oh yeah, the promotion stuff
- >on the A4000 sucks ! If you really want promotion, get PKludge !!!
-
- Yes, but the versions of DblNTSC and DblPAL that you can use on the A3000 only
- support either 640x800 (640x1024 for pal) interlaced or 640x400 (640x512) non-
- interlaced. You cannot get the 640x200 (640x256) scan-doubled modes, which use
- special features of the AA chipset.
-
- There are *good reasons* why promotion works the way that it does. Say, for
- instance, that you wanted to write a 3.0+ video titling program. If *everything*
- go promoted *all* of the time, you wouldn't be able to display the required
- NTSC or PAL video modes even if you *wanted* to.
-
-
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