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From: atoenne@laura.UUCP (Andreas Toenne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: increased resolution on normal ST (50%)
Message-ID: <1334@laura.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 18:40:20 GMT
References: <8904291649.AA04850@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <2968@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <4331@watvlsi.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: atoenne@laura.UUCP (Andreas Toenne)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <4331@watvlsi.waterloo.edu> jparker@watvlsi.waterloo.edu (James Parker) writes:
>In article <2968@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> opielask@sun.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu.UUCP writes:
>>From article <8904291649.AA04850@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by HOESEL@HGRRUG52.BITNET:
>>> in the german magazine 'ST magazine' dated 5/89 there is a discription of
>>> a extremely simple and low-cost (2 dollar) change discriped, that gives
>>> the atari a resolution of 840*568 points (on a normal atari monochrome
>>> monitor sm124/125)

FOLX!

HANDS OFF!!!!

I talked to several people who tried this patch. It involves some
soldering on your Atari board and new software.
However,

nobody could claim that this patch works. Obviously the software is
faulty and the hardware patch does not work properly.
It should expand the 'writing' time of the kathode-beam such that you
can write on the black borders around the screen. But you'll see the
beam when it runs back on the same space in monochrome mode.

	Andreas Toenne

P.S. I would like to have such a goodie too