A2024/Viking Moniterm (was Re: Amiga Unix (was: Amiga development))

--- "Ryan K. Brooks" <ryan(a)hack.net> wrote: You are both right: the Viking Moniterm was a Sun-style 19" mono monitor and a card for the video slot, and the A2024 was a monitor with a 23-pin Amiga video connection and all the necessary goodies inside. I had an A2024 once, I still have the Moniterm. Both use the same driver and the same techique - squeeze out four fields put up as a 1008x1008 2-bit greyscale image. As long as you didn't try to scroll text across the quarters of the screen, it worked nicely, even for Macintosh emulation. There was a bit of judder if you tried to use a text window across that split. The bits didn't flicker, but the left and right sides would refresh at a visible difference. The A2024 will work with any Amiga. The Moniterm will work with any Amiga that has a video slot (although I never tried it with my A1000 and Rejuvinator ;-) Great stuff if all you wanted was lots of desktop realestate. I used mine while developing text apps - lots of room to edit, compile and test. I even created a flyspeck font (1x2) to run my makes in a 1000-pixel-tall window on the edge of the screen. I could tell from the overall shape of the compiler output if it were done or not and if it was a clean compile or not. If there were errors, I could restore the font to something legible; otherwise, I could run the program from a "normal" window. -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/