Video resolutions

[Bill Seymour]

In article <434a32w161w at nstar.rn.com>, Travis Bissett writes:
> 
> It is possible to get 1008x800 mono from the Amiga video chips (A1000 thru 
> A2000 old) if you use the Viking Moniterm. Sorry...don't recall the CBM 
> designation for that monitor. It has special circuitry to grab the screen in 
> four pieces and paste it back together into a display. 
> 
> Of course, you also must know by now that the latest Denise chip -- the one 
> in the A3000 -- when working with deinterlacer and a multisync monitor can 
> display 4 (8?) colors up to 1200x800 (interlaced). 

	Close anyway... The SuperHighRes modes (1280x200 and 1280x400) don't
require a special monitor. The 1080 I have on my 2000 works just fine. Better
in fact than running it through one of the deinterlacers, since the monitor
seems to do just fine with 35ns pixels. the modes that require a multisync
or VGA monitor are the Productivity modes, 640x480 and 640x960 interlaced.
With either of these types of modes you get at most 4 colors from a palette
of 64. And with overscan, even on an NTSC machine, you can push the size by
quite a bit. (1440x482 on mine... :-)

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