pmh@cutie.ka.sub.org (Patrick M. Hausen) (05/10/91)
In article <1991May6.015046.13617@netcom.COM> rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler) writes: > In article <1991May6.010100.9329@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> yegerleh@vivaldi.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Yegerlehner) writes: > >Dear Netters, > > > >I know that the TT has a really high-res mode (more than a 1200 by > >600? pixels), and I know that Atari is (or will be) selling a > > I read it was 1200x960. In fact, it's 1280x960. > >monitor which takes advantage of it. My question is, is there > >a reason why only Atari's monitor can be used with the TT high res, > >and if so, is it available and how much does it cost? > > Along the same lines, does Atari sell a monitor that can take > advantage of the 1200x960 monochrome and the 640x400 color mode? If > there's no Atari monitor which does this, are there any multi-sync > alternatives? The difficulty in finding a monitor that can display all TT modes relies in the fact, that the high resolution mode uses an ECL signal for better picture quality. This is equivalent to TTL but the same signal is lead to the monitor twice: one time directly, one time inverted. This way influences on the cable by other electric devices can be eliminated by simply reinverting one and then adding the two signals. The signal for the lower resolutions is standard analog VGA so any VGA monitor can be connected to the TT. I don't know if such a monitor will synchronize to the ST-resolutions, too. Naturally, any multisync monitor can be used and will catch all resolutions besides 'TT high'. The only monitor that provides _both_, ECL _and_ full multisync capability and that is available here in Germany is the Eizo 6500 21-inch greyscale monitor (at $ 2000, I think, at least here it costs about DM 3500). You need an additional switch box to connect it to the TT if you want to display _all_ resolutions. ($ 50 or so). The TTM194 shipped by Atari _can't_ display the lower resolutions because it's _no_multisync_ (same story as with the SM124 on an ST). The Atari monitor costs about DM 2000 ($ 1200 or so). Hope, that helps. PMH P.S. I'm going to buy a TT and this Eizo monitor in a few weeks. If you can aford it - get it ! The picture's great and the 2 inches larger screen really does it. Small Text is readable much better than on Atari's 19-inch monitor. -- | Patrick M. Hausen | phone : +49 721 699234 (voice and carrier) | | Gerwigstr. 11 | e-mail: pmh@cutie.ka.sub.org (UUCP) | | D-7500 Karlsruhe 1, Germany | uk9u@dkauni2 (BITNET) | "Oh, oh peole of the earth! 'Listen to the warning' the prophet he said. For soon the cold of night will fall - summoned by your own hand." (QUEEN) -- | Patrick M. Hausen | phone : +49 721 699234 (voice and carrier) | | Gerwigstr. 11 | e-mail: pmh@cutie.ka.sub.org (UUCP) | | D-7500 Karlsruhe 1, Germany | uk9u@dkauni2 (BITNET) | "Oh, oh peole of the earth! 'Listen to the warning' the prophet he said. For soon the cold of night will fall - summoned by your own hand." (QUEEN)