RICK@QUCDNAST.BITNET (Rick Pim, The Bill The Cat Memorial Comput...) (12/09/87)
Notes from the World of Commodore. I drove down to Toronto for the annual World of Commodore show last weekend. A few nice things were in evidence: last year you pretty much had to look to find Amiga stuff amongst the piles of C64 stuff; this year it was more or less the opposite. Nice. On the other hand, the main reason I went was to pick up some expansion ram for an A1000. There was only ONE card - a Spirit (I think) internal expansion. Phooey. Expansion for 500's and 2000's was in evidence, but not the 1000. And I was hoping for SOME sort of show special - there were at least three products there last year; I hoped for better this year. (Can you say 'orphan'?) Mandala was @i(very) impressive. Finally got to see Maxine Headroom... One product of interest: From Hypertek/Silicon Springs, a deinterlacer for a monochrome monitor. Plugs into the RGB output, it was producing absolutely gorgeous flicker-free gray scale output onto an almost-stock Commodore 1901 (?) mono monitor. Seemed to work with morerows, too, but I didn't get a chance to play. They said that the necessary alterations to the monitor were simple and easy. Total price (I don't know list, just show prices) of the box + monitor + alterations (they'd do it there) was $225 CDN. Has anyone heard anything (bad or good) about this little item? I'm contemplating trying to find the cash for an A1000 tradein and this would be a nice combo to plug into it. If.... Thats about it. Not particularly exciting, all things considered. And this is/was supposed to be the biggest computer show in Canada. Sigh. The frozen north does have its problems. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Think I'll stay in bed Rick Pim, Physics Department Dream all day Queen's University, Kingston World outside bugs me anyway. rick@qucdnast.bitnet
farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) (12/12/87)
RICK@QUCDNAST.BITNET (Rick Pim, The Bill The Cat Memorial Comput...) writes: > One product of interest: From Hypertek/Silicon Springs, a >deinterlacer for a monochrome monitor. Plugs into the RGB output, >it was producing absolutely gorgeous flicker-free gray scale output >onto an almost-stock Commodore 1901 (?) mono monitor. This is NOT a deinterlacer. It sounds like an RGB to composite converter, with a slightly modified 1901 (to get it to display interlaced screens correctly). If you have a monochrome monitor with a long-persistance phosphor, and an Amiga with composite output, you already have all the "de-interlacer" you'll ever need. It's the persistance that's eliminating the flicker, not the interface. -- Michael J. Farren | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just {ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}! | dogmatize it! Reflect on it and re-evaluate unisoft!gethen!farren | it. You may want to change your mind someday." gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa | Tom Reingold, from alt.flame