Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl! From: frambo::schabacker (Tim, posting for ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Laptop Amiga Message-ID: <8809121201.AA16146@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 12 Sep 88 12:01:49 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 53 [No matter where you line, you get eaten] In a recent article bell@cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell) writes: >In article <3210@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes: >>What I want is a Laptop Amiga > >On this we agree. If this is a vote, count me in. :-) >>4. A flip up color flat panel, I don't care what type, but it should >>be at least 640 by 400 resolution. (704 by 440 would be nicer) > ^^^ ^^^ >A variety of options here would be nice, say a B/W 704x232 minimal up to a >Color 704x464. ^^^ ^^^ Ouch, argh, ick, yuck. No, non, nein, njet. :-) Enough of this creepy american ignorance, please! :-) Please keep in mind that about one third of the global Amigas are PAL machines, sometimes even with software that uses or needs the PAL resolution. So a Laptop Amiga should display at least 256/512 (plus overscan) vertical pixels. And I'd bet that a LOT of U.S. developers and users will use PAL resolution in the very near future. Why??? Simply because the new 1MB Fat Agnus has the ability to be switched from NTSC to PAL via hardware (the TEST pin) and also via software!!! So everbody who's not permanently into desktop video or running his Workbench in interlace on a short percistance (sp?) monitor (the additional 5Hz in NTSC help interlace somewhat), will gladly switch to PAL, because those extra lines are SURE nice. I only wish more U.S. developers would understand what PAL (or at least a dynamic screen/window), keymapping and non-ASCII characters are. I could list several pages of software that is anything from uncomfortable to useless due to those points only... But I really would like to see a Laptop Amiga, or better yet a range of Laptops from a $1000 A500 compatible to a $XXXX A3000 compatible... Yours visionary, - -- _ _ / / | \ \ aka Christian Balzer - The Software Brewery - < < |-< > decwrl!frambo.dec.com!schabacker OR schabacker@frambo.dec.com \ \_ |_/ / CIS: 71001,210 (be brief!), Phone: +49 6150 4151 ------------ Snail: Im Wingertsberg 45, D-6108 Weiterstadt, F.R.G. "In the beginning there was CAOS..."