IIRC, didn’t most older pc monitors have a setup mode where one of the options was interlace or non-interlace.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 20, 2024, at 09:35, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > I think you have that backwards. > > TVs use interlace. Older PC displays may do so, or not; typically the 480 > line format was not interlaced but there might be high resolution modes that > were. The reason was to deal with bandwidth limitations. > > Flat panel displays normally support a pile of input formats, though only the > "native" format (the actual line count matching the display hardware) is > directly handled, all the others involve reformatting to the native format. > That reformatting generally results in some loss of display quality, how much > depends on how well the relevant hardware is designed. And interlaced > formats are often supported not just for the VGA input (if there is one) but > also for DVI/HDMI inputs. To get the accurate answer you have to check the > specification sheet. > > paul > >> On May 20, 2024, at 12:13 PM, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >> This may have been covered before, VERY early in this tread. >> >> I think I tried a game on a flatscreen, and had issues. I don't know if it >> applies to the radio shack Color Computer, the interest of the original >> poster. >> >> many games and entry pcs with old style tv analog format, don't interlace, >> and tube TVs nearly all (except maybe a few late model high end ones?) are >> fine with that, but I seem to recall that most or all digital/flat screen >> can't deal with non-interlace. >> >> <pre>--Carey</pre> >
