Re: IIgs video modes...

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

bieling@terra.es wrote:

> OTOH, if the image had exactly the same width, the pixels would have
> to be shifted out at 7*1,1428=8.0 Mhz. or at 14*1.1428=15.999MHz.
> These figures is quite suspicious... isn't it. So I'd say that the
> image is probably of the same width if it were not because 8Mhz/16MHz
> isn't an even multiple of the color carrier, and I guess that this,
> from an NTSC point of view, may mess up the things a little bit. Or
> not ?

Not necessarily... in the dark corners of the home computing world (i.e.
at Commodore) 8 MHz was the most common pixel clock. Their chips created
separate luma/chroma signals though, so the two clocks didn't have to
match up. I assume that the same is true for IIGS modes.

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Linards Ticmanis