erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) (04/15/91)
I have the chance to buy a monitor which will (on a PC clone) display an 8" x 11.5" image. I would like to find out if it will interface to an Amiga, either with the scan-deinterlacer (VGA compatible) or with the ECS Denise. I do not know the range of outputs that the Denise can be driven to, but I do have the specs on the monitor. The monitor is made by Packard-Bell and appears to come with its own proprietary PC/XT card for driving it at 736 x 1006. It is also (apparently) Hercules (w/ parallel) compatible (resolution unspecified) Horizontal Frequency: 62.75 kHz. Vertical Frequency: 59.88 kHz. Maximum Resolution: 1006 x 1048. How do these scan rates compare with NTSC, MGA, CGA, EGA and VGA? Thanks for any info you anyone can provide, -ethan -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in Software Results Corp| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. 940 Freeway Drive N. | ## Columbus OH 43229 | ###### "You get it, you're closer."
watters@sphere.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) (04/15/91)
In article <107827@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) writes: >The monitor is made by Packard-Bell and appears to come with its own >proprietary PC/XT card for driving it at 736 x 1006. It is also >(apparently) Hercules (w/ parallel) compatible (resolution unspecified) > >Horizontal Frequency: 62.75 kHz. >Vertical Frequency: 59.88 kHz. >Maximum Resolution: 1006 x 1048. These numbers seem way out of line. The Amiga 1084 has: horizontal blank: 15.?kHz vertical blank: 60Hz(NTSC) & 50Hz(PAL) To use a multisync with the Amiga w/ a deinterlacer/new denise and all the new modes it needs to be able to drop down to 15.?kHz and go up to ~30-31kHz for the horizontal blanking frequency. For the NTSC modes it needs to have a vertical blank of 60Hz, and for the PAL modes it needs to be able to drop to 50Hz. A popular resolution nowdays is 1024(H) x 768(V) in both interlaced and noninterlaced versions, the latter being much more expensive. I have cought a few words that with 2.0, the ECS, and a monitor that's capable, you can have a screen up near 1300x900?! (Anyone with exact figures pleas comment.) David -=- "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. All of us do time in the gutter, dreamers turn to look at the cars!" - RUSH David watters@cis.ohio-state.edu "It's 12:35... and Michigan STILL sucks." _-_-_-__---_---_---__-_-_-____ TurboExpress : The Neo*Geo of portables _____