Display colors and reso

[meega]

Roger_S wrote:
I know that this info is widely spread on the internet, but contradictions like the 2nd post in this thread made me doubt.

What contradiction?

[meega]

ral-clan wrote:
In fact, I think most of those Double Scan modes (certainly Productivity Multiscan mode) will actually reduce the number of on-screen colours to four.

Not if you have AGA.

[Krusher]

ral-clan wrote:
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I didn't know this was possible.  Does it work?  I would love to see a screenshot or know if it's actually useable, or just a gimmick...  

I'm not shure if it does something, but something did happen on my fresh WinUAE installation. Now I have to figure out how to find out on what screenmode I am, in Prefs, screenmode nothing has changed and the MUI tool doesn't even detect the public screen I'm on  :-?

Found something else:

http://aminet.net/package/driver/moni/WBHacksAGA

That seems to work. (There are sample ham icons in the archive)

[Roger_S]

@MEEGA:

1c. Increasing colours beyond 256 is not on.

You can't switch it on unless you have a graphics card.

You point suggest that it is something that can be switched on somewhere.

[jj]

He meant not on, as in not possible or allowed

[meega]

@Roger_S

Read it again, please.

[Ral-Clan]

"NOT ON" is U.K. slang for "not possible".

You're reading it too literally.  :-)

If I hadn't known that, I would have been confused too.  We don't use "NOT ON" in that way in N. America.

[meega]

Roger_S wrote:
I can select a max resolution of 640*256 (something like that)

That is a PAL resolution. How am I to know where the poster is from?

[rkauer]

 OK, but there is a way to put a video card inside an A1200:

 Buying a BVision (with a B1260PPC hooked in); ;-)

 Very expensive and hard to find, BTW.

 Or buying a scandoubler/flickerfixer (internal is better) to hook a common VGA monitor to the Amiga. Works, but will not "enhance" the Amiga video.

[ami_junki]

If he uses a 256 colour WB screen in a VGA monitor that is gonna be horribly slow though.  I think he needs to do a bit more research, the Amiga 1200 is a great machine but don`t expect it to do things that everyday PCs can do right out of the box.

[Khephren]

the standard double screen modes would be slow on a vga monitor.
however, I used to use dblPal mode years ago, running in AGA HAM6 using the above WBhack. if you use systempatch and fblit, it is alot faster (especially if you have a turbo board). and imagefx would save out thumbnail icons of all my pictures in ham mode, which was cool. it was easily fast enough on an 030/50. ham8 was a bit chuggy.
can't remember if workbench backdrops were true colour though...this was just wb 3.0 however, i'll try it tommorow on 3.9. also, i didn't have 24bit dataypes back then either,they might help.