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From: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1950
Message-ID: <11373@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 May 90 01:42:40 GMT
References: <1625@mindlink.UUCP> <1289@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <3244@rorschach.oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: hood@cbmvax (Scott Hood)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3244@rorschach.oakhill.UUCP> eric@rorschach.UUCP (Eric Quintana) writes:
>>>  Can you supply any quantitative info [ about the 1950 monitor ] ?
>
>>  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?
>
>>Bob          rjtatz@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu
>
>Eric Quintana

I think you are confused.  Think of the monitor in terms of dot pitch
and video bandwidth.  Since the 1280 mode (more with overscan) the
pixels are 35nS in width (~28.6Mhz) and the 30Mhz bandwidth of the 1950
is quite up the task of showing the `Superhires' video modes. 

Scott