Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!helios!stat!aaron From: aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Help needed to pick a monitor for the A3000 Keywords: CRAPPY MONITOR Message-ID: <16529@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 25 May 91 07:22:12 GMT References: <3252@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Distribution: na Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 56 In article <3252@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (Michael S Figg) writes: >In article , lcs@remus.rutgers.edu (Lyle C. Seplowitz) writes: >> >> I'm going to buy the Amiga 3000 on the Power Up deal probably this >> Friday (at least order the machine on Friday). I was originally >> planning to purchase the 1950 monitor along with the computer. > . > . >> around the same price. I've heard the NEC 4D is an excellent >> monitor. What about the Seiko CM 1440, 45, or 50? >> > > I'm also doing research right now on the right monitor for a 3000. From >what people here and on CIS have said, it sounds like the NEC 3D is the >standard for a good multiscan monitor. The 4D was highly recommended by one I have one on my 3000 - the best/money buy is the NEC 3D "PERIOD" >individual but isn't in the same price range, it is more like $1150 -1200 >mail order. A couple of friends have recommended Seiko's and I went to see >one at a dealer yesterday. The salesman told me they aren't carrying many of >the Seiko's (1440) now and pointed me towards an Optiquist 2000. This monitor WATCH OUT for the Optiquest!!! It works great in Sync Modes above 31Khz, but in the mode that the Amiga3000 requires, ***YOU CANNOT ADJUST THE SIZE OF THE SCREEN*** DO NOT BUY THE CRAPPY OPTIQUEST! Unless you enjoy using only a small portion of your display. If windows was in a resolution greater than 640x400, chances are that it may have been in super-vga and it would adjust just fine in this mode. >looked good (on a PC running Windows 3.0) and he promised that it was a true >multiscan monitor. The specs (which I took home and don't have with me now) >show three possible horizontal scan rates (31.5, 35, and 48 I believe) which >I think indicates that it is a tri-scan and not a multiscan monitor. After >all that I'm just considering the Seikos and the NEC 3D at this point. > Everyone I know who has been through this agrees, "Don't buy the 1950, don't buy the Optiquest!!!, BUY the NEC 3D!!!" I would suggest the NEC 2D above the Optiquest or the (C=) 1950 BTW... > | Michael Figg DSAC-FSD >My Karma ran over your Dogma! | DLA Systems Automation Center > | Cols, Ohio mfigg@dsac.dla.mil > | CIS: 73777,360 Heard on TV this evening: 1st> My hot water heater isn't working; can you help? 2nd> Sure! Let me see a resume and I'll see what I can find... I just uploaded the new version of my "Yet Another Tetris Clone" that is friendly about needing a bunch of sprites. Check it out on ab20 /incoming or /amiga/games -> "yatc.lzh" The game plays tetris by itself and has a training mode to show you how to play.