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Wide Screen Resoultions
« on: September 07, 2010, 09:50:01 PM »
Can AMiga support them? Seems there are a lot of Wide Screen LCD monitors around now a days.
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Re: Wide Screen Resoultions
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 10:18:46 PM »
There was work being done on some wide screen modes for the Indivision AGA (maybe the ECS) boards but I was never able to get it working correctly on my wide screen monitor. Picasso96 drivers support wide screen under emulation and may with the right video cards on a big box Amiga. With a standard Amiga you are going to be limited to a 4:3 aspect ratio.

 
 

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Re: Wide Screen Resoultions
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2010, 12:29:06 AM »
What, 1280x256 isn't wide enough? :)

PAL with max overscan is 1448x566 in super-high-res laced, I pulled it down to 1366x566 on a CD32 hooked to a 40" Sony LCD TV using S-video, and it was actually quite good, and amazingly enough, flicker free.

Anyways, 4:3 aspect? Only NTSC has that, PAL is 5:4 (or rather 5:2 for flickerfree non-laced)
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Re: Wide Screen Resoultions
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2010, 01:31:46 AM »
Quote from: kolla;578278
What, 1280x256 isn't wide enough? :)


Oh god!  Those awful, scrunched-up native Amiga resolutions!  :barf:

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Re: Wide Screen Resoultions
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2010, 10:24:14 PM »
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Anyways, 4:3 aspect? Only NTSC has that, PAL is 5:4 (or rather 5:2 for flickerfree non-laced)

Yes I forgot about PAL. Either way, neither are "widescreen" modes.

 
 

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Re: Wide Screen Resoultions
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2010, 12:36:35 AM »
Widescreen (720p) is 1280x720 on 16:9  TV panels, and 1280x800 on PC monitors which are 16:10 ;)

MAX AGA 576 vertical so no this approx 2.35:1
 

Offline Gulliver

Re: Wide Screen Resoultions
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2010, 12:52:54 AM »
You can allways use the experimental monitor driver HD720 which enables a 16:9 "wide" screenmode with 1280x720 (47 Hz 17,86 kHz).

Get it from http://aminet.net/driver/moni/HighGFX40_6.lha