On: Amiga Forever

[mgk123]

That would be the A2024 which is emulated by WinUAE. It did not flicker or have long persistence phosphor. What it did have was frame buffer RAM on-board. The video signal output by the Amiga determined which 1/4 or 1/6 of the screen was refreshed. The driver code had a feature where the pane containing the mouse pointer could be refreshed more frequently.

[actionfromafar → mgk123]

Whoa! That's a rudimentary compression scheme to decrease latency.

[mgk123 → actionfromafar]

If you want to know the details of how it works, see US patent 4851826: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4851826A/en

BBoAH has a pic of an actual A2024: https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=863

There was also a separate video card containing the framebuffer hardware, that could be connected to a "normal" high-res mono monitor: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/moniterm

[rbanffy → mgk123]

There are brilliant hacks and terrible kludges. This is the latter.

Yikes!