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Re: Flick-Off Flicker Fixer

#1836
From: Steve Warren
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 21:41
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In article <399@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu> bryan@cs.utexas.edu writes:
^In article <570@crash.cts.com^ uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
^=-Does anyone know anything about the upcoming Flick-OFF flocker
^=-fixer from MAST?  They say it plugs into the denise socket
^=-on the motherboard, works with the new ECS 1.4 denise chip,
^=-and does all the current FlickerFixer does but through the
^=-Amigas own Db23 video port.  It requires a multisync monitor.
^=-I would sell my FF and buy one since I could then use
^=-the
^=-new 1.4 ECS video modes with 1 cable.
^=-anyone know anything about this product?
^
^	Eh?  I thought that the new denise is supposed to have its own 400-line
^noninterlaced mode.  If so, why bother buying a new deinterlacer?  More to the
^point, why bother building one that works with the new denise?

Because 1.4 ECS noninterlaced is limited to 4 colors.  FF lets you display
regular high-res without flicker.


--Steve
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From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Flick-Off Flicker Fixer
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