Amiga 2024 monitor

[Karlos]

Yeah, I tried screenmodes my old PAL monitor couldnt cope with for a a laugh too.

I found simply giving it the 3 finger salute was easier than trying to work out which of the array of mouse pointers I could see was the actual one :-D

[Karlos]

Oh no, not more mil spec shennanigans! :lol:

[Karlos]

Hmm. 800x600. That for OCS? Under ECS it could do up to 1024x1024 (in 4 shades) I think.

I have seen one running way back when. Haven't seen another since.

As it goes the picture wasn't bad but the refresh rate was still low. It worked by having a high persistance phosphor so you couldn't tell.
However that had the drawbacks of leaving a slight trail when anything moved (like old LCD screens but not anywhere near as bad).

[Karlos]

MaDDuck wrote:

They were good, weird BIG monitors!!!

No kidding :-) For OCS I think the A2024 modes use much of the available chip ram bandwidth which is what causes the slow down. Similar to using the DBLPAL/DBLNTSC modes in 256 colour on the AGA chipset.

[Karlos]

@Kronos


Interesting way of doing it, I didnt know that :-)

I didn't get the info from the atati thread, athough I can sure imagine it came up there!

I pulled the resolution info from an old WB2.0 manual I had here (came with my A600).

Given the total size/refresh rate of the screen (say 1024x1008 or whatever) and the limitations of the chipset, the idea that it strangled the bandwidth was purely my own conclusion...

You live and learn, eh?