Nope, doesn’t look good in the crt monitor either.
I can click through the 8, 16 and 32 bit settings and can see the text go from being nice and smooth on 8 and 16, then go jagged on 32.
Maybe I shouldn’t have posted this question in the Basic forum. I’ve been using AE for quite a while, just thought this might be a simple thing. I might try posting in the other forum, see if anyone else has had this problem.