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From: georgeh@neptune.UUCP (George Hagilaris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2080 woes...and more.
Keywords: A2080 Interlace A500 A1084
Message-ID: <667@neptune.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 01:10:00 GMT
References: <1565@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
Reply-To: georgeh@neptune.UUCP (George Hagilaris)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1565@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> zeke@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Eric SHAMASH) writes:
>It's funny, but every now and again, independent of software used, when I
>use my A2080 high persistance monitor and the display is interlaced,
>the lines will slowly get blurry and stay that way.  Most of the time, this 
>clears up within 5 minutes, and the display gets its usual sharpness back.
>I find it very annoying when it happens, and was wondering it any other
>2080 users suffer the same torment.
>

I have a 1084 monitor hooked up to my Amiga500 and I get the same fuzziness
problem in interlace that people have been complaining about with the A2080
(and the 1084 is not high-persistance).  On my 1084, it takes about 20 mins for
the fuzziness to begin and it lasts for about 20 mins before clearing up.
I've had my amiga for over a year now and I've always had this problem.

Has anyone else had this problem with any other monitors other than the 
A2080?  I'm the only person I know that's had this problem with a 1084.
Does anyone know what causes this problem?  Is there any way of fixing it?

Just to clarify things, this is what I mean when I say that my monitor goes
fuzzy:  It appears to go into a "double interlace" mode because the display
seems to vibrate two pixels up and down rather than just one (as with normal
interlace).  As a result, you can suddenly also see the vertical scan lines
like you do in non-interlace mode (which normally disappear in interlace).
Also, because of the "double vibration", the text (and everything else) on the
screen is fuzzy and hard to read.

-George