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From: mueller@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Carl Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Request for summary of A2024 capabilities
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Date: 2 Jun 91 17:40:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jun2.012545.26853@ichips.intel.com> is written:
>Could someone summarize the capabilities, advantages, disadvantages, etc.
>of the A2024 monitor.  Some specific questions:
>  - Resolutions supported
>  - Scan Frequency.  Is it interlaced?
>  - Chip memory bandwidth consumed by display.
>  - Connect to the normal RGB video output or to de-interlacer output?
>  - How would you compare it to the A1950 (or other multisync) on 
>    a deinterlacer?
>  - Anything else I should know?

My understanding of this monitor is:

It is a monochrome/grayscale 15" monitor with special hardware
buffering that allows it to display a non-interlaced 1008x800
4-grayscale image.  This image is created by using several
"normal" screens and thus the image refresh rate is 15 hz (as
opposed to 60 hz).  This mode is supported by the Amiga OS.  I
don't remember which video mode is uses to paint the screen,
but perhaps you can make some good guesses by doing a little
math.  It looks like it needs 1008x800x2/8 (~200K) bytes of chip
memory.

In addition, I think I read that it can also display all the
regular (15khz) video modes.  I do not know if it can display
the ECS modes at 31khz.

It connects only to the regular video port and thus will work
with any Amiga.  It is similar to the Viking Moniterm monitor,
but that one has several differences: it's 19" and requires a
board which plugs into the Amiga's video slot; whether or not
it can display the regular video modes is a mystery to me.

There is also a PAL version of the 2024 that has a resolution
of 1008x1024 and a different refresh rate.

That's about all I know on the subject.  Except that the retail
price is something like $799 and the educational price is $449.

-Carl (mueller@cs.unc.edu)