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From: wolff@pbinfo.uni-paderborn.de (Marcus Horstmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Request for summary of A2024 capabilities
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.111557.3039@uni-paderborn.de>
Date: 13 Jun 91 11:15:57 GMT
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In article <1991Jun2.012545.26853@ichips.intel.com>, waggoner@ichips.intel.com (Mark Waggoner) writes:
|> 
|> Could someone summarize the capabilities, advantages, disadvantages, etc.
|> of the A2024 monitor.  Some specific questions:
|>   - Resolutions supported

PAL 1008x1024
NTSC 1008x800(?)

|>   - Scan Frequency.  Is it interlaced?

All displays non-interlaced (even Superhires-interlace, but you cannot use it,
because only every 2nd row is displayed.
it has got PAL 50Hz NTSC 60Hz (not enough for a DTP-monitor I think, but the
display is quite good (much better as a 50Hz Monitor-Picture)

|>   - Chip memory bandwidth consumed by display.

I think its is approximatly 400KB(?), with 1MB Chip you have quite enough Mem,
but with only 512KB it works, but only the WB-Screen.

|>   - Connect to the normal RGB video output or to de-interlacer output?

Connect to the normal RGB-Port, uses the digital-Outputs.

|>   - How would you compare it to the A1950 (or other multisync) on 
|>     a deinterlacer?

Depending, on what you want to do with it. It has a good aspect ratio (nearly1:1)
and a really High resolution (interlaced-Hires looks like lores!)
and for TeX it is great (you can see the whole A4-Page on the Screen at once, AND
you could read it!).
An MultiSync does a real nice job. And if you are a colour fanatic, it is much
better, because the A2024 uses only 4 Colours at a time. And I think you recognize
a deinterlaced interlaced-Hires as the like.

|>   - Anything else I should know?
|> 

It is only really funktional if you use the WB2.0, because than the OS supports it
really good. But the hacks which Commo has done under 1.3 are not the good thing.

I like it, but I have co-installed a TV-Set, so I can see the Screen in Colour if 
I cannot figure something out, or for playing. I think, it is a good 2nd-Monitor.
You should have an other monitor as well.

|> Thanks for any help you can provide.
|> 
|> --
|> Mark Waggoner           waggoner@ichips.intel.com         (503) 696-4590
|>                        No, I don't speak for intel.

Ok, hope that will help

  Marcus

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