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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Productivity was Re: Amiga Video Lamers was Re: (Video) Idiots ?
Summary: No way
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.150555.6140@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 13 Jun 91 15:05:55 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.184413.10125@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) writes:
>In article <1991Jun11.035833.23743@news.stolaf.edu>,
>seebs@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (The Laughing Prophet) writes:
>|>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.
	What??? WHAT ELSE ARE YOU RUNNING THAT IS SUCKING UP GAWDAWFULL AMOUNTS
OF CPU TIME???? I have NEVER EVERE EVERE (that's not in my entire life)
sen the kind of effects that you are describing on ANY Amiga when using
interlaced mode (with or without some kind of flicker fixer). The way you talk
it takes a seccond or so for characters to appear. I can open up a full-size
Shell window and cat a text file and STILL not see anything that you
are describing, and I always have at least 4 other things running at
the same time. What do you have, a 16,000 by 16,000  16-color WorkBench
opened up with a giant shell window?


					Dave