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From: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Color survey - my sys-config (interlace)
Summary: A suggestion
Message-ID: <756@cord.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 03:53:14 GMT
References: <730@ivucsb.UUCP> <17294@cup.portal.com> <17302@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
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Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol
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In article <17302@cup.portal.com> Sullivan@cup.portal.com.UUCP writes:
>Dan Howell wrote:
>>I'd like to know what colors people use in their standard workbench
>>screen [...] I'm having a hard time finding colors I like to use for text.
>
>These colors work best for me on an interlaced screen.  You can morerow it
>if you like, (it used to be morerowed as far as my monitor would extend, 
>but Dpaint III doesn't won't configure correctly with it.)  Turn the brightness
>down on your monitor until flickering is adequately reduced.  This is a 
>positive writing on negative background configuration.
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Just giving the numeric values for the colors might be a bit simpler for all 
these various color combinations, though I'm not convinced it's all that 
useful.  A while back, Richard Sexton posted his "colors which don't flicker 
in interlace mode" and I, excited as could be, went to try them out.  Flicker
city.  In fact, it was substantially worse than some other combinations I
had played with.  Moral?  Different monitors flicker differently.  I have a
Taxan Multi Vision 770 Plus (gosh, wish they'd add some more words to the name)
which I'm sure is not the same as Richard was using (wild guess).

Posting colors is of limited value.  But if you're going to do it, at least 
say what kind of monitor you're using!!

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