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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Three AGA questions.
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:17:54 GMT
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- Mattias Dahlberg (matt-dah@dsv.su.se) wrote:
-
- > since then 256000 will be the number of pixels. But shouldn't it
- > be 262144 on all higher resolutions...?
-
- What's a couple of thousand colors here or there? :-) But seriously, I
- think the correct value is 2^18+64. (Ie, there are 64 base registers
- you can set to whatever you want, and you can HAM your way to 2^18 more
- colors beyond those).
-
- > 3. Does the lovely 72Hz mode 800x600 flicker, using an A4000
- > together with a multisync monitor. (I won't tell you what that
- > mode does to my A3000's flicker fixer.)
-
- It depends a lot on lighting conditions and your monitor. With my setup
- (incandescent lighting, C= 1960 monitor, polarized glare filter on top),
- there is no visible flicker. On the other hand, I've heard that some
- people have tried this mode with an NEC 3D and see more flicker, since
- that monitor might have shorter persistence phosphor. Also, I can see a
- little flicker if I remove my glare filter (but still nothing like
- 640x400 on my 2000). So it depends. For me, it looks very solid, but
- your mileage may vary. In the worst case (fluorescent lights, no glare
- filter, very short persistence monitor), it'll be unusable. In the best
- case, it'll be hard to distinguish from non-interlace.
-
- - steve
-