Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!sarah!newserve!bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu!consp03 From: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) Subject: Re: Display Enhancer Message-ID: <1991Jun26.180523.2137@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> Sender: usenet@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: bingsunc.pod.binghamton.edu Reply-To: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) Organization: SUNY Binghamton References: <30.2867E83F@busker.fidonet.org> <1991Jun26.154806.1023@news.iastate.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 18:05:23 GMT In article <1991Jun26.154806.1023@news.iastate.edu>, taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: |> This is one of my beefs with the A3000. Commodore spent millions of |>dollars fabricating the ECS Denise with these new resolution modes, and |>then does not support them with their flicker-eliminating display device. |>I wish Commodore would have designed the A3000's built-in DE to support |>these modes or, at the very least, designed the more expensive standalone |>DE for the A2000 to support these resolution modes. They did it to maintain compatibility with older software. Productivity software should now use "Productivity" mode, hence the name. The quirkiness of a flicker-fixer can be quite cumbersome for some people who need to use the system every day - the screen updates are a bit shakey for some to deal with at an 8-hour sitting. Productivity gets around that problem. To get over 600 horizontal raster lines, even IBM computers need a special display card (incidently, they need a special card to do over 200 lines, but that's not the point here). Do you know how much a typical card that supports over 600 horizontal lines costs? It has to have over 1 meg of memory installed on it. That puts it up out of reach of some of us. |> / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / -Kris +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Kriston J. Rehberg, Consultant, SUNY-Binghamton Computer Services | | or | | #include "Hackito ergo sum" - old Latin proverb | +-------------------------------------------------------------- ;-b --+