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Actually, watching Amiga demos on an actual PAL monitor does look better than on WinUAE, but i suspect that has to do with the vsync and blurring.

yeti: Quality has nothing to do with resolution. Everytime I'm at my parents' place I notice how shitty the TV programme is. Ok, there are some quite interesting things, but that's still less than 20%. (Actually the 80/20 rule works here as well. And we can modify it to 90/10 and it still works.)
So TV is like making a big pile of shit where HDTV is like making the pile at least five times bigger. ;)

However. What I meant with "more and more support gfx boards" was that the releases support both either PAL 320 x 256 or RTG 320 x 240.
Such as nearly every EPH release since Adam Malysz.
So if ya want to build up a "high end" classic A1200 you'll
have to go for a tower solution with f.e. Mediator PCI board
etc.

For just watching demos I guess it's ok to stick to an original
A1200 with a decent accelerator and 64Megs of fastRAM on
the Blizzard board. And consider yourself installing the
Oxypatcher to the startup sequence.

and for this "antialiasing" issue:
PAL/NTSC output belongs (imho) to a video standard output device to asure the best displaying quality.
One who saw a production f.e. on a doublelined 800x600 stretched WinUAE and later on the C=1084s
will spot the world of a difference in between.
But on the other hand:
reading stuff in PAL HiRes 640x512 is eyekiller for sure ;)
so in such case a gfx board makes sense.

madnenmann: why did you mention quality in this thread?

Oddly enough, the majority of humanity actually relies on anti-aliasing for a more pleasant reading experience, I get fidgety and fussy without ClearType, even on regular CRTs. Feel free to not use this feature, perhaps the invariable capslock twitch will disappear ;)


Yeah, brilliant penmanship pointdexter :( (At least Xeron called it by name)

Shifter: which is where it pisses me off that more and more systems are REMOVING THE OPTION.

It's fine to have the option so you can turn it on or off... I guess some people actually have a better experience by blurring the letters. No clue how, at all.

aww i thought i made you angry, its just them coders

There is one downside to watching demos on a PAL screen, and thats the 15Khz whine from the horizontal refresh being in the audible spectrum.

xeron: most demos include "a soundtrack". There are ways of making this "soundtrack" drown out the noise you mentioned.

this is "true". but it was the only downside I could think of.

so which device has the nicest hardware blur?

Commodore 1084S is pretty nice.

1081 is even better :)

teh r00lz0r C=1080

Strange, this one looks much newer than my 1081. :)

the blur testing range shall be a simple starfield on black
background from right to left.
Winner is the monitor with the longest lasting glow \o/

and the D1 revision

Will not work for me, my 1081 is not able to display a black background anymore. ;)

waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh! 3-pointer

Do you guys think a 040 would cut it? I can play Fake electronic lightshow on UAE full speed whilst emulating an 040 and some extra fast ram.

I just (finally) found an A1200 here in the states and now I have to seriously consider what turbo board I should get.

Don't buy 040. It's actually even slower than a 030/50MHz solution (eg Bilzzard 1230).