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From: js@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: choosing interlace mode for the workbench
Summary: can't get it to work
Keywords: preferences preference interlace monitor workbench video
Message-ID: <10808@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 89 20:55:15 GMT
Reply-To: js@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora)
Organization: Princeton University Computing and Information Technology.
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Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents.

I am helping evaluate an Amiga 2000.  According to the Amiga
documentation, I should be able to get the Workbench to use interlaced
mode by using the Preference Manager.  The docs say I should click on
Yes for that option, save preferences, and restart the Amiga.
Unfortunately it doesn't work--whenever I save preferences, `use
interlace for workbench' is reset to No.

The Amiga is hooked up to a non-Commodore monitor, but the monitor has
no problem displaying interlaced video from applications.

The only thing I can imagine is that the Workbench or the Preference
Manager somehow detects that the monitor is not a 1084 (?), and
assumes that ALL non-Commodore monitors are incapable of interlaced
video, but that sounds like a really stupid "feature", and it's not my
best guess.  Does anyone know what's going on, and how I can turn on
interlace mode in the Workbench?

Please reply via email, since I don't read this newsgroup often.  I
apologize if this question has been raised before.

-j.
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Jay Sekora		             |       js@phoenix.princeton.edu
Information Centers Consultant       |                 js@pucc.bitnet
Princeton University	             |         sekora-jay@cs.yale.edu