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Article #2594Re: Orphaned Response
From: jmiller
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1986 21:45
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1986 21:45
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The RGB monitor is no problem since any medium resolution negative sync monitor can be used, however, the monochrome monitor requires a 31.5 KHz horizontal sweep rate and a vertical sweep rate that can be tweeked to 71 Hz. The 71 Hz Vertical sweep was chosen to reduce the harringbone and barber polling that occurrs because of the internal frequencies present in the computer required to generate the color burst sync. Several monochrome monitors will fit this description if you are sure that the vertical freq. can be tweeked far enough. The monochrome monitor should have a high persistence phosphor so that flickering will be kept to a minimum. In monochrome mode, the video is output in interlaced mode and must scan two complete frames to complete one picture in the same amount of time that one frame is scanned in color mode. Thus the 400 line resolution in monochrome mode. There are rgb monitors that can scan at the 35 Khz rate and have a high persistence phosphor but their cost is around 800.00 plus dollars and that was evidently not considered a viable option. This would also require twice as much of aa graphics frame buffer also causing larger than needed overhead. The capability exists within the hardware to do this at a later date whenever the monitor technology get's to a more economical position. This would require different initialization of the graphics crt scan control registers as well as all the application software routines.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uokvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!okstate.UUCP!uokvax.UUCP!jmiller From: jmiller@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <38700010@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 16:45:00 EST Article-I.D.: uokvax.38700010 Posted: Mon Mar 17 16:45:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 03:24:23 EST References: <0@<860306215129> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:<860306215129:0:uokvax.UUCP:38700010:000:1472 Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!jmiller Mar 17 15:45:00 1986