sierra@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Frankie Sierra) (02/05/88)
Is it posible to use a monitor designed or advertised to work with the MacII standard 640x400 resolution, with a video card that delivers higher resolutions (say 1024x1024)? Frankie Sierra sierra@ati.tis.llnl.gov
dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) (02/06/88)
Frankie Sierra Writes: >Is it posible to use a monitor designed or advertised to work with >the MacII standard 640x400 resolution, with a video card that delivers >higher resolutions (say 1024x1024)? Well I believe that supermacs hi end video cards will drive say the apple monitor at either 640*480 or 1024*768. I am refering to the Spectrum/24 card. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David L. Williams dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM ...!hplabs!hpda!dlw Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Ca Software Development Technology Laboratory Distributed Computing Environment Project Phone:(408) 447-5425 Mailstop: 47LR "What if Apple put a SPARC on a Nubus card?"
gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (02/08/88)
SuperMac's latest advertisement shows 4 separate color monitors all being driven by the same spectrum display card. If you look closely at the AppleColor monitor, you may notice the display overscans at the right & bottom edges! In fact, it looks like the monitor only displays the top left corner of a 19" (1024*768) picture! This is sort of like the inverse of the problem Mac II programs have with Mac128 programs sticking in the upper left of the screen! Has anyone on the net *used* supermac's display with an Apple (or a multiscan) monitor? Are there any problems, like not being able to grab the trashcan because it's off the bottom-right corner of the screen? Another question: Stepping Out II, by Berkeley system design, has just been released. This program, which creates & manipulates a virtual desktop to enlarge the screen, now supports the Mac II. Has anyone tried it on a Mac II? Does it work well? Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois {gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}