Is it possible to use a high-res screenmode on a pal tv without flickering and without flickerfixer?

[Karlos]

Sure. Get a 100Hz Sony widescreen TV. Those things essentially have flicker fixing hardware built in and run at 100Hz vertical refresh. Any PAL signal they show tends to look nice and flickerless :-)

Not as cheap as the sunglasses or a flickerfixer / monitor combo mind you :-)

[Karlos]

Ilwrath wrote:
...The best you can do is try to pick low-contrast colors for your workbench.  Dark blue, with a mid-blue text doesn't flicker too bad, but if it's not a perfect picture on a TV, it may be very hard to read, as not enough contrast.......  

Actually, there was a patch available a few years ago called 'MagicTV'. If I recall correctly, it uses two sets of bitplanes (thereby restricting AGA systems to 16 colours) and does some custom chip trickery to help eliminate the flicker.

I used it for a while before getting my gfx card and it was very effective at reducing the flickering on both my TV and 1084.

The author stopped developing it after a while, but you can probably still find it on aminet.

[Karlos]

@Amigaguy

:lol: you beat me to it :-)

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It had the rather cool side effect that text etc appeared a bit antialiased too. It probably wasn't but it used to look that way on my system.

[Karlos]

Well, I was recently accused of becoming an old fart :-D