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From: rodentia@legs.UUCP (Tom Roden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VGA -> NTSC ???
Message-ID: <2908@legs.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 90 17:16:48 GMT
References: <NELSON.90Jun25231954@image.clarkson.edu>
Organization: AST Research, ASIC (VLSI) Development, Irvine, CA
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in article <NELSON.90Jun25231954@image.clarkson.edu>, nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) says:
    [stuff deleted]
!    Color was
!    hacked into NTSC and works only because the color in a TV signal
!    changes more slowly than the intensity.  Of course that isn't true for
!    computer output, so the resolution is unacceptable.

    Does this mean that if you have your character screen colors set
to white on black that you CAN get readable 80x25 on your TV?  Or
if you turn the color down on your set?  Or is there another bandwidth
problem involved too?

    There is an ega mono mode.  Can you set up your system to think
that that is all that's available (or vga mono modes I guess) and
use Windows and other graphics programs in black and white with 
acceptable (use your own definition) appearance?

    Thanks

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