wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (11/23/88)
I just received my December 1988 issue of Byte. Thank you, Andy and Joanne for taking the time to groom Jerry P's opionions of the Amiga. For a change, the Chaos Manner column finally has quite a few nice things to say about the Amiga, nealy all of which are close to being accurate. Jerry seems to remain confused on a couple of things, but I'm willing to overlook that for the moment. Jerry mentions Joanne showing him the Microway Flicker Fixer board to deinterlace the 400 line mode. It would have been interesting if Jerry would have thought to mention that IBM's "standard for comparison" (my quotes) for the PS is the 8514 board, which IS interlaced. I particularly liked the following lines from the article: "Long time readers will know I've sometimes had problems with Amiga computers. Part of the difficulty is me: the Amiga is a powerful multitasking machine, with a fairly complex operating system. Unlike the Macintosh, which is easy to but limited in what you can do - you can learn almost all you ever will learn about using the Mac in a couple of days - the Amiga has lots of capabilities, and it deserves more time than I've been willing to give it." Personally, I like the thought of having a machine that hasn't given me all that I'm ever going to get from it in a couple of days. Fortunately I have the time and desire to exploit the Amiga. Jerry went on to say some nice things about the desktop video production possibilities that the Amiga opens up. He described how an Amiga could be used to aminate a typical TV weather forecast. If Jerry continues to say fairly reasonable stuff, I might actually be able to take down the scaffolding and noose that have been waiting here (just kidding!). --Bill
dleigh@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Darren Leigh) (11/24/88)
In article <1420@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: >Jerry mentions Joanne showing him the Microway Flicker Fixer board >to deinterlace the 400 line mode. It would have been interesting >if Jerry would have thought to mention that IBM's "standard for >comparison" (my quotes) for the PS is the 8514 board, which IS >interlaced. Yes the 8514A board does have an interlaced mode (with 1024 by 768 resolution), but it is interlaced at 44 Hz instead of 30 Hz. Actually the display looks quite nice and I could detect no flicker. Your flicker threshold may vary. ======== Darren Leigh Internet: dleigh@hplabs.hp.com UUCP: hplabs!dleigh
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (11/24/88)
In article <2662@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP (Darren Leigh) writes: |In article <1420@neoucom.UUCP| wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: ||Jerry mentions Joanne showing him the Microway Flicker Fixer board ||to deinterlace the 400 line mode. It would have been interesting ||if Jerry would have thought to mention that IBM's "standard for ||comparison" (my quotes) for the PS is the 8514 board, which IS ||interlaced. | |Yes the 8514A board does have an interlaced mode (with 1024 by 768 |resolution), but it is interlaced at 44 Hz instead of 30 Hz. Actually |the display looks quite nice and I could detect no flicker. Your |flicker threshold may vary. The 8514 DOES show noticeable flicker with single pixel horizontals lines, expecially when putting up a grid for example (I noticed it after I ported magic to the IBM 6152 which uses the 8514). Since the rate is higher than the Amiga, the flicker is not as bothersome, though. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=