gary.farmaner@canremote.uucp (GARY FARMANER) (12/15/89)
The Commodore 2080 monitor (intended for Amiga) is best described as a medium persistance rather than high (or long if you prefer) persistance monitor. The Amiga is well known for its animation capabilities, and Commodore apparently didn't want to sacrifice the picture quality of animation (due to smearing) by introducing a true high persistance monitor. The result is a marked improvement over the 1080/1084, but non-annoying interlace still requires the sensible selection of colours. Since the C128 only has 16 colour choices, the benefits of the 2080 are minimal (I've tried it out). In fact, since the 2080 is really a 1084 with a different picture tube, the overall picture quality of the 2080 (with a C128) is worse than the original 1902 (2002). The best interlace display quality I've found so far, is on a monochrome monitor (in my case a Zenith Data Systems amber). Monochrome monitors tend to have high persistance phosphors. Naturally, I'm limited to only three display levels (off, medium, bold). What I'd like to find is a reasonably priced black and white monitor capable of handling all the overscan modes that *ARE* possible with the C128's VDC (up to 740x600), takes a RGBI input, and provides 16 levels of grey scaling. Anybody have suggestions? --- * Via ProDoor 3.1R