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ECS was pretty lame. I remember messing around with the 1280x200 and x400 modes. What a bizarre aspect ratio.

• snvzz 5y ago
  Superhires sure works better with interlace and some overscan. The "Productivity" modes (equivalent to hires+interlace, without the interlace, double line clock instead, are extremely useful, even if you don't have FAST and are thus limited to 2 color for performance.
  • icedchai 5y ago
    The productivity modes didn’t do much for the A3000 though. It had a built in de-interlacer. Maybe they were more useful on other machines, though I personally never knew anyone with a monitor that could use them.
    • snvzz 5y ago
      >It had a built in de-interlacer Interlacing is easy, deinterlacing not so much. The scan doubler was a very welcome addition, and it worked much better with non-interlaced modes. Obviously, productivity modes were pass-through. >Maybe they were more useful on other machines Big box A3000 was not as common as the other machines with ECS. These would be A500+ and A600, alongside A500 with upgraded Denise (upgrade kits were sold alongside AmigaOS 2.x disks/roms). >I personally never knew anyone with a monitor that could use them. DVD era, many TVs supported "progressive" mode. Before that, it was not exactly common, but some Multisync VGA monitors could take both the 15.6KHz and 31KHz modes.