heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote: <snip>
On a side note, I wish the IIgs montior wasn't so small compared to my IIe monitor. Not to mention the inch boarder around the viewable screen, what is the reason for that? Is there a way to get thepictureto stretch to the edges of the monitor?The border is that big on all monitors and tv sets I've connected to my IIgs. The IIe is not that different from it and the PAL IIe is a lot worse as the picture is vertically "compressed" (nearly a fifth of the height is unused). I don't know the reason of this since I'm no expert in this area but I think it has to do with the timing of the display generation.
This is an intended "feature" that allows all of the text and graphics screen to be visible on a TV used as a monitor. TVs have relatively loose standards for the amount of "overscan" they employ, which causes information near the edges of the raster (all sides) to be outside the visible area of the screen. All professional TV productions use guidelines that position essential information well inside the edges of the raster for this reason. Perhaps as we enter the world of digital HDTV the need for this will finally disappear. -michael 8-voice music synthesizer using NadaNet networking! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/