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From: Bits_of_Magic@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Back a Step
Message-ID: <25150@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Dec 89 01:16:56 GMT
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Speaking of graphics modes, there's something missing on the Amiga, and
that's a decent text display mode.  I work primarily on an IBM, and when
I switched to an Amiga for some programming I discovered that there is no
acceptable display mode for editing programs.  I get a choice between
640 x 200, which is not too bad but limits me to about 23 lines, and 640 x
400 which is completely unreadable because of the color combinations needed
to eliminate the flicker.

The Mac gets away with no text mode by using a nice crisp monitor, which the
Amiga can't do because its video signal has to be NTSC compatible, and having
slow text display, which is really annoying when you are editing a program
and have to jump around a lot.

The IBM just has a bunch of text modes, including 80x50, which is what I use
for program editing.  Some of the newer graphics cards go as high as 132 x
65, but in my experience that's too much unless you get a BIG monitor.

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