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From: rick1@sbcs.UUCP (Guest account)
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Subject: Re: Amiga with a small monitor? -- (A fix for crummy text)
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:44:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 15:44:40 1985
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> Has anybody tried looking at 640x200 text with a 'scan-doubler' (which
> replicates each line in the first half-frame into the line immediately
> below it in the second half-frame.)?  I'll bet that the text and icons
> would look quite acceptable that way.  Has anybody tried a simple
> software kludge that sends out interlaced 640x400 to the monitor, but
> the second half-frame is just an exact copy of the first half-frame?
> With a simple hardware patch to replace the software kludge, it should
> ...
>
> Rick Thomas
> ihnp4!attunix!rbt


No need, I remember reading in the ROM Kernel manual that AMIGA already
supports interlacing by doubling scan lines. It requires just a few
lines of C code (and away you go).

						Perry S. Kivolowitz