Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!rick1 From: rick1@sbcs.UUCP (Guest account) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga with a small monitor? -- (A fix for crummy text) Message-ID: <7@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:44:40 EST Article-I.D.: sbcs.7 Posted: Mon Nov 4 15:44:40 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 08:23:38 EST References: <213@telesoft.UUCP> <613@sftig.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook Lines: 18 > 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