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#ADPro HAM>PCX "glitches"

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#21275From: Lee BoschFeb 2, 1991 12:10 PM
Any suggestions on what we can do to avoid the 320xHAM problem in the interim? I finally got some memory stuck on my A2091 card and now have 4 meg contiguous on my A2500. Much bettah. Is there any fix for the ARZ/DYNA bleed? I suspect that it has something to do with the hard drive host adapter as it happens on non-accellerated machines too. Thanks for a great product. Now the Pee Cee people can drool on their own keyboards. Lee Bosch – via Whap!
#21292From: ASDGFeb 3, 1991 8:38 PM
I am afraid that there is nothing we can do to fix the 320 wide HAM into 24 bit-planes problem until our free automatic upgrade comes out in the near future. With respect to “arz/dyna bleed'' are you refering to background color changes outside the image? As is, changes in the background color to the left of pixel 0 and to the right of pixel 640? Is so, this is normal for arz/dyna type pictures. Color register 0 (which is the background color) is changing line to line. This causes a visible change in the border area if the image is not overscanned. pk
#21395From: Lee BoschFeb 9, 1991 12:32 PM
I seem to get some striation in the picture itself. I didn't read the part about the border bleed though. This begs the question: What exactly IS the relationship between ARZ1, DHR and ARZ0? On another front, have you heard about a problem with full overscan HAM images breaking up? I know it has nothing to do with your product as it happens with SuperView and Dyna-Show. Again, I have an A2500/30.
#21440From: ASDGFeb 10, 1991 10:35 PM
ARZ0 is the same as DHR – up to 16 color register changes per high res line. ARZ1 is slightly different in that color register 0 (the background color) is clamped to black. Therefore, you get at most 15 color changes per line and a non-weird border area if the picture is NOT overscanned. As for your question about overscan HAM – I think I CAN give you an explanation. SuperView does not handle severly overscanned HAM images correctly in that it over optimistically offsets such images too far to the left of the screen. In doing so, some pixels on the left side get left off the display's HAM computation causing awful HAM fringes on the left side. You can confirm this is the case by using the SuperView option which disables overscan. If the “break up'' goes away…then this was your problem.