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All right, I suppose this is a flame. I've been criticized before for what
I'm about to say, but I can't hold this one any longer.
[Re: Amiga Text]
[color=blue]> I have great difficulty considering a machine which can't display[/color]
[color=blue]> reasonable-quality text without flicker anything but a sophisticated[/color]
[color=blue]> games machine.[/color]
I have seen text on both the 1070 and 1080 monitors, which most Amiga owners
use. It is entirely stable in 80x25 (640x200) mode, and is a joy to read.
I personally prefer amber on black text; this is particularly readable.
Amiga text, while certainly not superior to IBM Monochrome text on the
IBM green phosphor monitor, is easily in the same league. And Amiga text
is far more stable, clear, and readable than text on the IBM color monitor,
the Macintosh, or almost any other micro-computer level color monitor I've
seen. I have not seen 520ST monochrome text; I hear it's very sharp. But
please don't criticize Amiga text until you've seen it.
Alvin Wen
wen@harvunxu.bitnet
wen%h-sc4@harvard.HARVARD.EDU