JEMCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET (03/08/88)
Date: 7 March 1988, 21:52:47 EST
From: Jim McCabe JEMCCABE at MTUS5
To: INFO-ATARI16 at SCORE.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: OmniRes ST
I'm considering buying OmniRes ST (a program from E. Arthur Brown
Co. that lets any monitor run in any resolution). I remember someone
a while posting a little review of it, but can't seem to locate my
old digests.
I've got several questions about this product, and would appreciate
any response:
a) how good is the color emulation on a monochrome monitor? Especially,
on an intricate multicolored background, is it distinguishable as
anything other than a mess?
b) how fast is this color emulation? Or, how good is the image in a
faster mode?
c) are color register updates performed? (like in Degas's color cycling
animation technique)
d) how smooth is the mouse movement when pretending to be a color monitor?
This sounds like an interesting product (not nearly as interesting as
the late ST Video Box, unfortunately...)
If anyone else is interested, I could concatenate all the responses into
a file and send them out. (That is, if someone answers this! ;)
>>> I do not have anything to do with E. Arthur Brown Co., I'm just
curious as a you-know-what.
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