Re: Vector Emulation

From: Mark E Davidson <Burbs1_at_concentric.net>
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 21:04:13 EDT

Commodores 1084s and 1950 / 1960 monitors were not long-persistance phosphors
monitors
That's why the flicker fixer was such a hit. I do think Sony offered a
long-persistance phosphors around that time but Im not 100% sure.
I still have all 10 of my Amigas running right here next to me!

-=Mark=--

Clay Cowgill wrote:

> > I'd be interested in seeing what the results of that decay + a
> > 3D card's built-in anti-aliasing would produce. You could probably do the
> > decay in MAME without using a 3D card, just by doing the decay op instead
> > of clearing the frame buffer between frames.
> >
> This jogged a memory for me-- didn't the Amiga have a couple of color
> monitors with long-persistance phosphors for it's interlaced display modes?
> The vertical resolution would probably be pretty low, but it might be fun to
> hook one up in a 640x240 MAME mode and see how the phosphor glow looks
> compared to a "real" B/W vector monitor. ;-)
>
> -Clay
Received on Mon Oct 4 20:03:59 1999

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