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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Stupid Wishes
Message-ID: <17328@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 89 23:21:29 GMT
References: <16615@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
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In article <16615@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <17222@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>>
>>Yes, I know about the hardware limitation, but considering Amiga owner
>>discontent over 640*400 interlaced & the number of sales lost to the ST
>>because of it's hires mode availability,
>
>Wait a minute, is this the Atari 620x200 noninterlaced "hires",
>the same thing that apple calls super-hi-res on the GS.

Now maybe I'm wrong here, been a while, but it used a monochrome
monitor and sure looked hires. Displayed 80* ~50 text. Greyscale
looked fine also. It was the only thing about the ST that I envied.

>1) Turn the brightnes down.
>
>2) Get a Sony monitor.
>
>The perception of flicker is dependent on many things, but brightness
>of the tube, and the amount and kind of light are the two greatest
>contributing factors to an undesirable amount of flicker.
>
>I used hi-res exclusivly, and barly notice any flicker. Of course
>I did 1) and 2) above.

I have to work in an office with a large flickering fluoresent light. I
have a 1080 monitor & colors are so washed out to keep flicker down
that it looks really sick. I have things set so they are bearable to
me.  Anyone else who comes in my office says "How can you watch that
thing?  It's gonna ruin your eyes." It's a matter of image, partially.
It contributes to the 'Game machine' image that the Amiga is straddled
with. It kinda gets under my skin when I work so hard to build up its
rightful capabilities to others, only to be destroyed by this stupid
display. And no, I can't put a flickerfixer on it, its an A500. And no,
I'm not gonna resort to a 640*200 display to work in.

Now about that Sony monitor... I'm hearing conflicting reports about
what the Sony does without a deinterlacer board. Every report I've
heard states that the display flickers more than a 1080 does. If
this isn't true, please tell me what model Sony you use & how it is
connected. I'll do my best to try one.

I'm just saying that with as many complaints about the 640*400 display
as there have always been, I believe that Commodore should have looked
into fixing it much sooner.

>>What I want is to make more information available to the printer
>>drivers and to make it easier for applications programs to output to
>>the printer. [...]
>
>This sounds great. I have a Postscript printer too, and while I 
>havn't really had any problems in this area, what you describe
>might be moderately useful.

This could be VERY useful for those with Laserjet & Deskjet printers,
and VERY useful to me with the Postscript connected to our Sun network.
This section was not a complaint, I am responding to all the other
complaints I keep seeing about poor printer support with a possible
solution. You see, I believe in a balance of ideas. I don't think I
should post a complaint (video) without posing a truly plausible
solution for a problem. I appreciate the response.

>Let me know when you're done.

I'd love to try & see how far I could get, but to be useful, it would
have to be a superset of PRT: & Commodore kinda has a lock on that
device. :^) Printer drivers would have to be upgraded also.

>-- 
>       ``The who's who of Milwaukee only eats Ugandan pineapples''
>richard@gryphon.COM  decwrl!gryphon!richard   gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV

Thanks much,
Kent Polk