Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucselx!maxc1503 From: maxc1503@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Help needed to pick a monitor for the A3000 Keywords: CRAPPY MONITOR Message-ID: <1991May31.103104.3157@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Date: 31 May 91 10:31:04 GMT References: <3252@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> <16529@helios.TAMU.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services Lines: 42 aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower) writes: >I have one on my 3000 - the best/money buy is the NEC 3D "PERIOD" You think it is so good that no other monitor worths considering? Do you work for NEC? Don't you think Sony / Seiko are also worth looking at? >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. >>all that I'm just considering the Seikos and the NEC 3D at this point. >> If you like Seiko, Sony is almost similar, having the same screen, the 1302 goes down to 15kHz mode, and thus supports all A3000 modes. >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. Not that the NEC 3D is not good, I'm typing this on the original NEC multisync, but "PERIOD" is a bit heavy. David