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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another A2000 Question (LP monitor smear?)
Message-ID: <2532@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 20:10:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2532
Posted: Sun Oct 18 20:10:40 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Oct-87 02:46:19 EDT
References: <177@tahoma.ARPA>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: LP, long-persistence, smearing?

In article <177@tahoma.ARPA> bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken) writes:
> 
> Another A2000 question:  Is smearing a problem with a long-persistence 
> monitor on the Amiga (both with the stock Amiga and with a 68020/68881 board)?
> Would it be noticable only with the fastest of animations, or most/all
> animations and even routine operations with a WYSISYG word processor or a
> paint program?

I would expect some smearing effect with a long persistence monitor.  Whether
this would be a problem with animation would lie in the eyes of the beholder.
Most of the complaints about smearing relate to the udesirable effects such
as trails when scrolling or moving text data.  In the case of animations, the
effect might well be positive.  In any case, you might note that the long-
persistence color phosphers aren't really that long as compared to say an
IBM PC monochrome monitor.  Ambient illumination also has an effect, in normal
lighting you might see no smearing, in darkness everything might display
ghostly green trails.

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