#VGA Monitor
26-Apr-90 21:37:46
Sb: #100035-#VGA Monitor
Fm: Karl Sparklin 71076,434
To: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
Betty,
WARNING: We're going to have to be very careful here. I had hoped the
Amiga community would escape the IBM-format quagmire, but what with CBM
calling their flicker-fixed output a "VGA output", we're "caught".
Some monitors are now VGA-ONLY. They no longer multiscan; they depend on
you having a card that converts all the lower modes up to 31kHz. If I
understand the 3000 VGA output, it'll still flip between 15kHz and 31kHz. A
VGA-only monitor would not work.
So "VGA-monitor" is different from a "multisync that goes up to VGA
mode". I sure hope nobody gets burned by buying the wrong one when this
becomes more popular and the terms get even more interchanged.
(Stopping flag-waving)
Karl