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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: They went and done it
Keywords: Have a cigar, Jerry
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Date: 24 Nov 88 02:09:19 GMT
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In article <2662@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP (Darren Leigh) writes:
|In article <1420@neoucom.UUCP| wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
||Jerry mentions Joanne showing him the Microway Flicker Fixer board
||to deinterlace the 400 line mode.  It would have been interesting
||if Jerry would have thought to mention that IBM's "standard for
||comparison" (my quotes) for the PS is the 8514 board, which IS
||interlaced.
|
|Yes the 8514A board does have an interlaced mode (with 1024 by 768
|resolution), but it is interlaced at 44 Hz instead of 30 Hz.  Actually
|the display looks quite nice and I could detect no flicker.  Your
|flicker threshold may vary.

The 8514 DOES show noticeable flicker with single pixel horizontals lines,
expecially when putting up a grid for example (I noticed it after I ported
magic to the IBM 6152 which uses the 8514).  Since the rate is higher
than the Amiga, the flicker is not as bothersome, though.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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