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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <sbiddle.06fx@aviate.welly.gen.nz>
- From: sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
- Date: 29 Dec 92 09:14:32 +1300
- References: <Bzu958.DvD@news.iastate.edu> <shogun.09r5@tension.UUCP>
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- In article <shogun.09r5@tension.UUCP>,
- shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown) writes:
- >In a previous post someone said that the Amiga can not have a flicker free
- >800x600 display. Well, on another newsgroup yesterdauy, I read in a CBM
- >engineers post a summary of all the Aga resolutions, and the scan rate the is
- >required for them. He said that 800x600 requires a 72khz monitor frequency to
- >display without flicker. These monitors are out there. I don't believe they
- >scan down to 15khz for the lower resolutions, but in a short bit when AGA is
- >dominanat in the Amiga world, no one will be writing software theat runs in
- >less than 640x400 at 35khz, then the multiscans that go between 35 and 72 khz
- >will be perfect for all programs.
-
- 800*600 is 72 _hz_, not 72 khz. With a good monitor, in this mode, from what
- I've sen personally, the flicker is barely noticeable in some instances, and
- is a massive improvement on standard NTSC Interlace. The current chipset
- doesn't support anything above about 32khz modes.
-
- >As far as CDROM being the future standard, guess again. The future is in
- >CDRAM. A few years back, Tandy developed one. It should probably hit the
- >market in a few years. That will end CDROM entirely. Who wants 660 megs of
- >read only media, when they can have 660 megs of read/write media? The short
- >term is definately the 20 meg flopticals that can read/write 720,880. and 1.44
- >meg formats.
-
- It's a bit like saying that that DAT will outdo a CD because if offers
- recordable Digital Audio - but it's going to be a long time before that may
- be the case..
-
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