Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!agate!stew.ssl.berkeley.edu!johnf From: johnf@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A2080 woes...and more. Keywords: A2080 Interlace A500 A1084 Message-ID: <1989Oct10.161149.27769@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 10 Oct 89 16:11:49 GMT References: <1565@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <667@neptune.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 34 In article <667@neptune.UUCP> georgeh@neptune.UUCP (George Hagilaris) writes: >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. >I have a 1084 monitor hooked up to my Amiga500 and I get the same fuzziness >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 This is a common problem with the old 1084's. Mine does it too. My dealer was never able to find the problem. Aiming a fan at the monitor sometimes helps. I think this is one of the reasons Commodore ditched Magnavox as their 1084 manufacturer, and went back to whoever made the 1080's for the newer 1084's. Of course, that leaves the rest of us with bum monitors and no recourse :-( It would be nice if there were some sort of trade-in plan for us to get a discount on a more functional monitor in exchange for our bad 1084's, but I don't expect that will happen. John John Flanagan Space Sciences Laboratory johnf@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu University of California (...!ucbvax!sag4.ssl!johnf) Berkeley, CA 94720 Manners Maketh Man. (415) 642-7635