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afonseca@terapin.com (Alberto Fonseca) writes:

>Hi everyone.. I have a couple of questions about the Falcon 030 and the use of
>monitors for it..

>I read that it was compatible with all VGA montiors, as well as the ATARI
>monitors and TV's, etc.. What I wanted to know is if it makes a difference, or
>how the computer reacts to larger monitors, or different resolution monitors.. 
>Like a Multisync 5D, or a 19" monitor in color.
>Does the size of the monitor change the amount of colors?  Does the computer
>automatically adapt to the reslotuion of a big screen monitor?  I am talking
>about true color mode.

The resolution that appears after boottime depends on 2 things:
- The adaptor that is plugged in the FALCONS's monitor-port
- The resolutions you have choosen in the desktop.
All important resolutions can be displayed on all types of monitors (but
sometimes only interlaced). So it does not matter which monitor is connected
(14inch or 21inch for example, RBG or VGA and so on...)

>In true color mode, does this mean the bigger the monitor the more colors?  If
>not, what is the limit of colors/pallete?  And are they developing any cards to
>use with the Falcon for 24 bit color or 32 bit color?  Can the Falcon use a
>card to give it 16.7 Million colors on a 14' monitor?

The size of the monitor does never influence the amount of colours you can
use. In TrueColor you have 32768 colors from 32768 colors, in other modes
you can use 256 colors from 262144 colors. The FALCON has an internal
slot for different kinds of extensions.
 
>When buying a Falcon 030, does bigger mean better?  The Falcon Screenblaster
>card, is 800x600 I think, but how many colors..

As far as I know the same amount of colours, but more pixel and/or higher
refresh-rates (70Hz and more). (I'm talking about the OverScan-Card)

>I think they should make like a 1280x1280 16.7 million color card.. or
>something real high rez in order to compete or out-do the graphics on other
>platforms.

For TV/Video-applications 640x400 plus Overscan is exactly the right
resolution. Resolutions of 1280x1280 are only sensible on 21ich
monitors ($3000 and above :-)) I know some PC-freaks using 1100x800
on 15inch monitors. Normally the fonts they use are also only 16x16 pixels,
so they look like 8x8 on a normal resolution. I think that's crazy, but
they love it... 
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Harald Schoenfeld (hs@cnve.rrze.uni-erlangen.dbp.de)