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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Which monitors can use TT high res?
Message-ID: <2931@atari.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 91 20:07:07 GMT
References: <1991May6.010100.9329@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991May6.015046.13617@netcom.COM>
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>In article <1991May6.010100.9329@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> yegerleh@vivaldi.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Yegerlehner) writes:
>>I know that the TT has a really high-res mode (more than a 1200 by
>>600? pixels), and I know that Atari is (or will be) selling a

rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler) writes:
>I read it was 1200x960.
>Along the same lines, does Atari sell a monitor that can take
>advantage of the 1200x960 monochrome and the 640x400 color mode?  If
>there's no Atari monitor which does this, are there any multi-sync
>alternatives?

Enough of this misinformation.  

TT high rez is 1280x960, an industry standard.  This resolution requires a
monitor along the lines of the Moniterm Viking.  (I don't know if that
particular model actually works, but you need something like it.) Atari
either sells or is planning to sell such a monitor.  I don't have any real
information on our marketing plans in that direction: I just don't know.

This type of monitor can't show any of the other TT or ST resolutions, and
no Atari monitor which can show the other resolutions of the TT can show TT
High.  In that respect this is like the ST:

	ST
		REZ 	X,Y,COLORS	MONITOR REQUIRED
		ST LOW 	320,200,16	ST color monitor
		ST MED	640,200,4	ST color monitor
		ST HIGH	640,400,bw	ST mono monitor

	TT
		REZ	X,Y,COLORS	MONITOR REQUIRED
		(all ST modes above)	TT color monitor
		TT LOW	320,480,256	TT color monitor
		TT MED	640,480,16	TT color monitor
		TT HIGH	1280,960,bw	high-rez monitor

I am speaking only for monitors that Atari sells and uses.  I guess there
are monitors which you can hook up to ST's and see all the ST modes.  There
may be monitors that can show all six resolutions of the TT.  I suspect
such a monitor would be hellishly expensive -- moreso than the 1280x960
monitor, which is not cheap.

Another note: ST HIGH on the TT is actually a color mode: you can choose
any two colors, not just black and white.

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