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From: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Color and Mono
Message-ID: <9002211809.AA09431@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 18:38:09 GMT
References: <3001@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <3001@water.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>Is there a product that will allow a color monitor to be used (badly,
>perhaps) as a monochrome monitor?
>
>-- 
>    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
>	ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca	ljdickey@water.BITNET
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>	ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu	

There are several PD utilities that do this, none of which seem very robust
(ie they make everything crash!).  One commercial product that I know of, 
Omnires (sold through E. A. Brown Co. for about $35) also does it, and it
seems to be more forgiving.  It also give the ability to emulate a color on
a mono (with grey scales, of course).  Several different methods for both
types of emulations are included, you are instructed to pick the one you 
like the best (dithering, etc).  I would recommend that you get a real mono,
as they are cheap (hell, you might be able to get a used one for $60) and 
they look sooo good (70Hz is hard to beat, best monochrome screen I have seen).

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