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From: dpz@convex.com (David Paul Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Flicker nixer?
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Date: 2 Jan 90 06:47:13 GMT
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Howdy... I'm on the verge of buying an Amiga 500.  I used to have an Amiga
1000 with the 1080 monitor, until a social disease with a TRS-80 tricked me
into giving it up.  Back then, I refused to live in any mode except primo
interlace.  I remember that interlace on the 1080 was barely tolerable, and
that I had to play with colors a lot until I found a semi-comfortable
combination.  The standard monitor of today seems to be the 1084, and from
what I see from Paul Anton Sop (rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu), I should
probably avoid it.

The $64,000 question is, what to do?  I see a couple of (possible?) options:

	- buy the 1084, put an optical screen/mesh on the front
	- buy a slow decay monitor
	- buy some mutant video-port-module/monitor combo 

What have YOU done that works for you?  My price range tops out at about $400.
If this problem is widespread enough, the answers might want to be included in
the monthly comp.sys.amiga intro...

David Paul Zimmerman                                             dpz@convex.com
CONVEX Computer Corp                                                 convex!dpz