From @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Mon Jan 10 17:09:04 2000 +1300 Status: X-Status: X-Keywords: >From @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Mon Jan 10 00:20:02 2000 Received: from burger.forfree.at ([206.161.237.241]) by ark.listquest.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA25162 for <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@>; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:20:01 -0400 (AST) Received: (from mdom@localhost) by burger.forfree.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA11382 for 1997120709; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 05:10:43 +0100 Received: from gem.win.co.nz (gem.win.co.nz [210.55.105.242]) by burger.forfree.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA11378 for <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@>; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 05:10:39 +0100 Received: from tos.gem.win.co.nz (uucp@localhost) by gem.win.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id RAA31287 for @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:16:34 +1300 Received: from localhost by tos with smtp (Smail3.1.29.5 #1) id m127W8e-0003CnC; Mon, 10 Jan 100 17:09 NZDT Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:09:04 +1300 From: Brian Becroft <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> To: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Subject: Re: [Notator] Larger monitor/screen for Atari/Notator. In-Reply-To: <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> Message-ID: <@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Precedence: bulk Reply-To: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ X-header: ------------------------------------------------------------ X-header: Unsubscribe? Send an email to: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ X-header: with the following message: unsubscribe notator X-header: Notator website [FAQ/downloads/help/info/archives etc....] X-header: X-header: List problems? : @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ X-header: ------------------------------------------------------------ [Notator SL mailing list] On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Hallvard Tangeraas wrote: (snip) > >the screen size which is c. 6"x 8". As I recall, my 1040ST with 4 MB RAM > >couldn't accommodate the larger monitor when I looked into it about 5 or 6 > >years ago. Certainly, the "measured size" is a quite different thing to the "pixel" size, comment can be found about this by looking in archives of previous posts. There is no way to actually increase the amount of "pixels" on the Atari ST as standard, the pixel resolution is 640x400 pixels, a shade under the standard VGA resolution, considered quite small on thodays computers. However, lets us focus on the main point - making the visible screen bigger, this is what you are able to do, and is probably what you are meaning. the Atair 124 monitor is a devil and small, can be expanded etc, but honestly, with Marios VGA/SVGA plug adapter, you can just use any modern screen and be done with it, get the soze you want - 15" 17" 19"21" - I mean- want do you want? Just get the monitor you want for size and try out the adapter, it works with almost all monitors, the real question is does the monitor controls allow you to adjust the screen out to the edge. On most screens this is possible. Follow this line of enquiry and you should be quite impressed, but, don't make the mistake and go thinking you will be getting "more" information on the screen, you get the same screen but just bigger! Even if you have a graphics card you will not be able to get notator to, for instance, to display the main screen and the score screen on the bigger screen at the same time - no! Notator was not code written with that possibility in mind. > I'm not sure if memory has anything to do with this, but you can indeed > use a big screen nowadays. Correct, has nothing whatever to do with it, but it would if we were increasing the "pixel" resolution (which we are not) > Mario Becroft in New Zealand (who's father > is on this list as well) makes several very useful and cool hardware > add-ons for the Atari ST computers, Me the dad, and looking at the ethernet adapter as I write this, getting closer each day to being finished, then the graphics card, here it is here, (hang on, Im leaning over the table) but we are trying to find the money of NZD2500 for a run of the BIG chip that will go on the PCB I'm now holding in my hand. Then later this year we hope the ST graphics card and 030 CPU accelerater, IDE interface, PC keyboard/mouse adapter, so you can run big monitors with high "pixel" resolution and browse the internet on your wee wee ST computer but with true colour and 1280x960, and no limits on the RAM... Truthful we are looking for more commercial ideas, Mario and I exist on bread and the low unemplyment benefit:-) So far we have made back all the money we spent on development, so that is at leadt good, but all you other musos out there, maybe there is some realistic products that have yet to be thought of or re-designed, are there other tech people you know that we could work together on a project. Does someone have funds they could faithfully sink into developing your idea?? We would completely re-write Notator if we could find the support for mMario, and you would have a Notator with everything in it you could ever want, and be portable to Mac/PC/Atari, someone writng their will just now?!! What happens if you put Sodium Metal on water? Big explosion and a fire!! -- | Brian Becroft | Tariland, Atari user group in New Zealand | | @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | | http://gem.win.co.nz/brian/ | http://tariland.win.co.nz/ | ______________________________________________________________ | Unsubscribe/list-help/list commands.... | | http://matrix.crosswinds.net/~notator/docs/notator_intro.txt | ______________________________________________________________