Be still your Black & White heart. I wasn’t convinced and got an A500 back then instead. I still ran MacOS no problem when I inserted a Mac emulation floppy disk.

https://youtu.be/VJI88QIW7H4

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The Mac and even the Atari ST had great high resolution B&W screenmodes for Desktop Publishing. The Amiga had nothing comparable with OCS machines and even AGA machines suffered flickering screens on TVs and cheap monitors without hacks like MagicWB!

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SM124 (ST monochrome monitor) has so sharp and good display in comparison to my A500 (A1085S monitor), even some games (eg. Ishar) work with it.

A2024 monitor allows to display 1024x800 resolution in 4 colours, that was in 1988 I think.

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hacks like MagicWB

MagicTV.

Tried on my A1200 with the above mentioned A1085S monitor, but doesn´t help much. Euro72 on my 19" TFT looks much better.

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BigD wrote: @DiscreetFX The Mac and even the Atari ST had great high resolution B&W screenmodes for Desktop Publishing. The Amiga had nothing comparable with OCS machines and even AGA machines suffered flickering screens on TVs and cheap monitors without hacks like MagicWB!

For 1990, Amiga 3000 has a built-in flicker fixer for its ECS.

AGA has high-resolution productivity modes which require multi-sync monitors that support 15 kHz and 31 khz.

My Dad bought me an Amiga 3000 at 25 Mhz with KS 2.0x ROM variant in early 1992 and I have connected my Dad's IBM 386 PC's VGA monitor to the Amiga 3000.

Prior to the 1990's A3000 release, high-resolution productivity mode is served by the A2024 solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwxmgTPcRGM

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What’s great about a B&W screen?!?

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In that era it was more important to have high resolutions for desktop publishing! Seriously, it’s limitations like that which made people think the Amiga was ‘just’ a games machine while businesses and newspapers bought Macs and home users bought STs if they wanted DTP in the 80s. Eventually PageStream was a killer app on AGA machines but it still required MagicTV without a multi sync monitor.

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