Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!elroy!gryphon!jdow
From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FlickerFixers
Keywords: Aren't they silly!?!  *** NO ***
Message-ID: <5297@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 88 07:47:23 GMT
References: <2138@ssc-vax.UUCP> <2191@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <11737@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow)
Organization: Wizardess Designs, Hermosa Beach, Ca.
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In article <11737@steinmetz.ge.com> perley@mazda.steinmetz.ge.com (Donald P Perley) writes:
>In article <2191@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
>
>
>>Having priced flicker fixers at $550 I am wondering, "Isn't this
>>a bit silly?" Reason being that the cause of flicker is the phosphor
>>decaying before the scan comes around again to refresh it. The solution
>>is to get a monitor with long persistence phosphors. Seems to me I can
>>get such a monitor for about $550 or at least $900. Why $900, well
>>flicker fixer plus monitor is about $900.
>>
>>What's wrong with the above arguement?
>
>If your phosphor persistence is too long, it will screw up animation.
>Moving objects will leave little "comet tails" behind them.  I think
>it would be difficult to get a phosphor that stays lit up for 1/30 sec.
>and then cuts out just in time for the next frame.
>
>
>
>-don perley

Don is exactly correct. With long persistance you can kiss of animations.
And even such simple things as scrolling becomes a pain in the ... er <cough>
eyeballs. I have a FlickerFixer coupled to a Zenith FTM. Hooboy do that work
NICELY. Animations are great. Games play nicely (such few as I play...)
Text scrolls nicely. All those good things. And the blooming screen is FLAT!
I highly recommend the FlickerFixer. And if you can afford the rather pricey
FTM that is perhaps the best you can do. I cna sit back three feet or more and
easily read 132 column text fonts. (Needless to say I often set Armando up
with that configuration. (Armando == my B2000)

If you can afford the FF plus monitor combination (new monitor is necessary)
don't pass go - get it.

-- 
Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit.
Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one.

{@_@}
	jdow@bix (where else?)		Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes
	jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM		the knight. Does the fair maiden ever
	{backbone}!gryphon!jdow		win? Surely both the knight and dragon
					stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide?
					Better yet - she should get an Amiga and					quit playing with dragons and knights.