Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site telesoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!telesoft!dar From: dar@telesoft.UUCP (David Reisner @shine) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Amiga with a small monitor? Message-ID: <213@telesoft.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 01:09:05 EST Article-I.D.: telesoft.213 Posted: Sun Oct 27 01:09:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:23:51 EST Organization: TeleSoft, SanDiego CA Lines: 27 I was sitting at a Mac today, and I noticed how much nicer the Mac screen looked than the Amiga screen (I've only seen the Amiga with the 1080 monitor). In particular, the Amiga characters and icons look fairly course (especially visible horizontal gaps between lines) and the Mac characters and icons look nice and dense - much more "paper-like". Traditionally, color screens aren't supposed to look as dense as black and white screens, so that may be the difference. On another hand, the number of dots per inch has a lot to do with the perception of whatever-fuzzy-characteristics-I'm-alluding-to. The Mac has a much smaller screen than the Amiga, so a similar number of pixels total translates to a larger number of dots per inch. Has anyone tried using an Amiga with - a "small" (9"?) color monitor? - a black and white monitor, large or small? - a "very high quality" color monitor? How does it look? I'm particularly interested in text, window, and icon appearance. Perhaps someone has an Amiga and can borrow some monitors and try them out? I'd also like to reiterate the request for comparisons of the 1070, 1080, and other color monitors when used with the Amiga. I'd really like to hear from someone who has used all three. -David sdcsvax!telesoft!dar