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From: joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Pictures on the ST (Amiga's RULES)
Message-ID: <13008@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 Jul 90 02:55:59 GMT
References: <4b28c24a.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <196@next.com> <672.26899914@desire.wright.edu> <1990Jul2.071658.16558@math.lsa.umich.edu> <725.268f2179@desire.wright.edu>
Reply-To: joe@cbmvax (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance)
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In article <725.268f2179@desire.wright.edu> arc@desire.wright.edu writes:
>In article <1990Jul2.071658.16558@math.lsa.umich.edu>, hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>> You'd really
>> need the same kind of monitor that the Amigans use - an intelligent one
>> that assembles the video frames in an internal buffer.

If I read you correctly here, Howard, you're under a misconception: the
standard monitors used on Amigas are not intelligent. They are analog RGB,
NTSC or PAL compatible (depending on country). You may be referring to the
use of multiscan monitors in conjunction with de-interlacing video cards which
buffer interlaced scan lines in local RAM before sending the signal to the
monitor to remove the flicker inherent in interlaced NTSC/PAL signals.

>
>Hey, bud, our screens (640x200, 320x200, etc.) update at 60 frames per second. 
>ONLY our interlace mode updates at 30 frames per sec.  DON'T even start!!!
>
> ALso, we have a blitter and many co-proc's and the ONLY "co-processor" YOU
>have is a DMA controller, BIG DEAL!  Later

Please, Amiga owners, be polite when visiting other groups. There's no need
to start flame wars over differences in various system designs. Leave
religious fervor in the realm of metaphysics.
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