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From: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg)
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Subject: Re: Productivity was Re: Amiga Video Lamers was Re: (Video) Idiots ?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 18:44:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.035833.23743@news.stolaf.edu>,
seebs@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (The Laughing Prophet) writes:
|>???? Why would you use Productivity on the 3k? I have used it occasionally,
|>but it only lets me use (in effect) about 64 colors, i.e. 4 shades of red,
|>4 of blue, et. al... And, of course, I can get perfectly flicker free output,
|>with no flicker-fixer, off the '3k, because the flicker-fixer is
*built* *in*.
|>So, what are you seeing in productivity that I'm not?

I am seeing smooth sprite movement and flickerless screen updates in
Productivity.  I'm sure you've seen objects like the mouse pointer
become all fuzzy and shakey when you move it up and down, and when
things move around on the screen you can see the scan update fields
overlap each other.

But it is nice for lots of colors, but I can't use it for very long when
doing serious work.  Especially when I type in interlaced mode.  When a
character appears on the screen, you can actually see it being created: 
fuzzy first, then (when the second vertical refresh comes in) the rest
of it.  It's kinda like watching those older near-letter-quality
printers print, one pass at a time, putting together a final product.

|>Also, what do you mean by 'vga'? I've never seen a vga set up, but I remember
|>being told they had lots of colors - which productivity doesn't, so far as I
|>can tell.

I go by the horizontal frequency rates.  Colors are not really a good
measure because there are monochrome 640*400 systems.  For most people,
anything over 31 KHz horizontal is commonly called VGA (although the
vertical sync is different  in some modes).  There is VGA (640*400),
Super VGA (800*600) and HiRes VGA (1024*768).  If you noticed, these
includes the flicker fixers.

I dunno.  VGA isn't really a 'standard' anyway these days.

|>Peter Seebach - The Laughing Prophet     |     |        Anonymous
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