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From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fixing flicker, & future frame rate issues
Message-ID: <160@kesmai.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 88 20:47:38 GMT
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In article <11234@ut-sally.UUCP>, bryan@mothra.cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer) writes:
> In article <2954@leo.UUCP> harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne) writes:
> =-	Well, I wouldn't go as far as saying FF is flawed, it does what it was
> =-designed to do. Remove flicker.
> =-
> 	Oh?  Gee, you must still be driving a 1975 Pinto.  It too does what it
> was designed to do, only it has this tendency to come apart under certain
> conditions.  And here all these years I thought it was a flawed design.
> 
> 	If you read my latest article, you will see it plainly stated why
> objects DO come apart even thought the motion is synched to the 30Hz display
> rate.  If you really did see the fF in action, then you saw the mouse pointer
> come apart, and you will see it in every animation that moves anything faster
> than 1 pixel/(1/30th sec).  
> 
If you're so smart why ain't you rich.  The FACT is, fF is the only product
so far which addresses the flicker problem on the Amiga.  LP phosphor
monitors have their own set of problems which are more objectionable than
and cost as much or more than the fF solution.  If you find the design so
flawed then don't buy it.  Better yet, build a non-flawed solution and we
will all thank you rather than argue with you.  Flawed or not, it fF does
fix the flicker and at a fairly reasonable cost.  Personally, unless something
better comes along, at some point I hope to get together the scratch for
fF and a multi-sync and have one on my desk.  I find the picture coming
apart much less objectionable than I find flicker.  At least the fF people
have made an attempt at a solution (which some people at least find useful).

David Albrecht