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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Video Advice
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Date: 5 May 90 07:11:10 GMT
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Several people have mentioned that you can already put video on the
RGB screen with a genlock and have been able to do that since the A1000
first had genlocks available.  However, what is new on the A3000 is the
ability to pick which color register is transparent.  What I want to
confirm is that this allows one to have a *normal* workbench screen
and a custom screen that is all video.  Swap screens to work and see
the TV.  That way you don't have a window floating in space and text
scrolling into Spock's ears.

Here's what I was thinking:
 Screen 1.  Workbenchwith normal colors etc.
 Screen 2.  Video on a 1 bit plane custom screen (with overscan natch)
 Screen 3.  Shangahi - the game
 Screen 4.  Shanghai - help
 Screen 5.  Memacs 1.3
...etc.   You get the picture.  This would be superior to the Mac product
that puts a little teeny tiny B&W window on the screen.  Normal video.
Neat!!

So am I correct in assuming that this could be done as envisioned?
p
Dana etc. from cup.portal.com