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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: new amiga computers
Message-ID: <1450@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 07:23:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 21 07:23:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 20:30:57 EST
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <126@toylnd.UUCP> dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) writes:
> 
>Personally, I would hope that the engineers at Commodore would have enough
>savvy to produce video interface circuitry that would disable the NTSC
>output for a 640 x 400 flicker-free mode to the RGB port while maintaining
>the NTSC compatibility for all the other modes.

We're working on a higher resolution version of the Amiga chips.  Of course
there are only so many hardware people and lots of things to do.

>I'm also really tired of the whole 'buy a lp phosphor monitor'
>response as I'm not really interested in buying a 1K monitor for a 1K
>computer.  While the price of monitors with at least 640x400 res is dropping
>the price of lp phosphor monitors hasn't budged.

Well...the LP monitor you can buy whenever you want.  New chips, you have to
wait until we get them finished, debugged and into systems.  If somebody asks
what they can do about flicker, you can't tell them to just wait...

>David Albrecht
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