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From: elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Monochrome Monitor
Message-ID: <7626@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 24 Mar 89 02:35:34 GMT
References: <13931@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <13931@duke.cs.duke.edu>, mdl@grad7.cs.duke.edu (Michael D. Landis) says:
> Is anybody out there using a monochrome monitor on their 1000 to overcome
> the flickering interlace problem?  I have a need for the larger resolution,
> and I can sacrifice the color.  What monitors are good for this?  How to
> connect? What fonts are good for 640x400 monochrome, etc?  

I'm using a Magnavox Computer Monitor 80 (the composite one, not the
IBM TTL one), heavily overscanned (704x480, or something like that).
It works great with an Amiga 500 or Amiga 2000. However, a monochrome
monitor has problems with the Amiga 1000. Color signals introduce
cross-hatching, due to the chrominance signal impressed upon the luma.

If you run a grey-scaled workbench and set up all your software to run
grey-scaled you can get around this, but some software doesn't allow
changing the pallete on their private screen. Also, it gets hard to
find the cursor in greyscale on a 704x480 screen when you have an
editor window filling most of it. An orange cursor at least gives you
something outstanding to search for. But you'll probably run with
white text on a black background, with the cursor greyish, and there's
a heckuva lot of text to look through to find it (83 chars x 52 lines
or so). 

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