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From: gutierre@NSIPO.NASA.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: re: Cheesy Amiga Video
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Date: 8 Sep 90 03:19:06 GMT
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seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
|> Standard Super HiRes mode is 1280 x 200, and Super HiRes interlaced is 
|> 1280 x 400, or 1440 x 480 with overscan.  
|>  
|> Sure, the pixels aren't square, but this mode wasn't designed for CAD
|> work...it's more of a high-resolution video titling mode.  SuperHiRes
|> Interlaced just about matches the resolution of a Chiron CG...it
makes really
|> nice, smooth characters for video using 35ns (is this correct) pixels.
							 ^^^^^^^
Close enough.

The question is though, can you get SuperHiRes out of the standard RGB video
port (i.e.: will it display thru a genlock)?  I seem to remember that the
timing signals are different for such resolution modes...not the same
timing for the standard modes (HiRes, etc...)

Am I missing something here???  Wasn't that the whole point of the standard
DB-15 (VGA) connector and Multisync monitor for the 3000???

|> Sure, you only have four colors out of 64...but this is fine for titling.

Damn right, especially since I do *extensive* titling on the order of 30
minutes of video *per week* right now, and I'd like it to be better than
70ns (640x480) that I got right now on my Amiga 2000.



   Robert Michael Gutierrez
   Office of Space Science and Applications,
   NASA Science Internet - Network Operations Center.
   Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

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