calengr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (California Engineer Magazine) (07/21/89)
My Atari 520ST is over three years old now, but I just realized that my screen size is much smaller than the monitor's screen size. That is, the border is about 1.2" all the way around the screen. I guess I never noticed because I was used to my old Atari 800 with a monitor. My question is this...Can I adjust my monitor to compensate. My friend's color monitor has screw holes in the back plate which can be turned to adjust the vertical and horizontal height of the screen. Unfortunately, I have a SM124 b/w monitor with no adjustment screws. Thanks in advance for any helpful info. Michael
rsimonian@x102c.harris-atd.com (Simonian RP 66449) (07/21/89)
In article <15634@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> calengr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (California Engineer Magazine) writes: >My question is this...Can I adjust my monitor to >compensate. My friend's color monitor has screw holes in >the back plate which can be turned to adjust the vertical >and horizontal height of the screen. Unfortunately, I >have a SM124 b/w monitor with no adjustment screws. If you open up the case to the SM124, you will find four POTS inside. They are labelled (I believe) VSIZE, VLINES, HCENTER and BRIGHTNESS. Adjusting the VSIZE POT very carefully (and preferably with the power turned off; there's a _lot_ of voltage in there!) will increase your vertical size nicely. However, I haven't figured out how to increase the horizontal size. Richard P. Simonian 407/984-6006 Natural Language Processing Group Harris GISD, Melbourne, FL 32902 Internet: rsimonian%x102c@trantor.harris-atd.com
kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) (07/22/89)
calengr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (California Engineer Magazine) writes: | My Atari 520ST is over three years old now, but I just | realized that my screen size is much smaller than the | monitor's screen size. That's right, and there's a reason for it. The monitor is adjusted at the factory that way so that it has a 1:1 aspect ratio. That way, when you draw a circle on your monochrome screen, what you see really looks like a circle. And when the VDI drivers draw graphical text, the characters can be scaled so that what you see is the actual size of what you get, and not distorted. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include <disclaimer>
dsmythe@cup.portal.com (dave l smythe) (07/24/89)
> kbad@atari sys: > [stuff about keeping the aspect ratio calibrated properly] I still find that an unsatisfying answer. There is plenty of room for a larger screen with the same aspect ratio. What is REALLY needed is a screen that is big enough to be useful, say 19-20 inches, with 1280 x 1024 resolution. Then perhaps you could use the ST as a low-cost X terminal. Is there a SCSI monitor? Is that a dumb question? my $.02 p.s. 'course, by then you're paying more for the monitor than the computer, but so what? Dave Smythe dsmythe@cup.portal.com
kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) (07/25/89)
dsmythe@cup.portal.com (dave l smythe) writes: | [...] What is REALLY needed is a screen | that is big enough to be useful, say 19-20 inches, with 1280 x 1024 resolution. | Then perhaps you could use the ST as a low-cost X terminal. Moniterm Viking monitors are available for the ST. They have a resolution of 1280 x 960 - and make a really beautiful display. The interface requires a Mega, though - but Mega 2 computers are not all that expensive these days - especially when pitted against X terminals. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include <disclaimer>