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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1950
Message-ID: <19995@grebyn.com>
Date: 4 May 90 13:51:23 GMT
References: <1625@mindlink.UUCP> <1289@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <3244@rorschach.oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <3244@rorschach.oakhill.UUCP> eric@rorschach.UUCP (Eric Quintana) writes:
>>  Resolution  - 800 dot (H) x 600 Lines (V)
>>
>> With the A3000, all screen modes seem to work - 1280 x 400 (1440x480 overscan)
>> and 640 x 960 and others.
>
>I'm confused.  How does 1280 x 400 work on a monitor that only has 800 dots
>horizontal resolution?  Is the screen cropped?

No, what happens is that the Amiga's pixels are too narrow horizontally
to be individually perceivable.  At the 1280 X nnn resolutions, if you 
light one pixel of a color, you won't necessarily see it and be able to
tell it's color.
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