[net.micro.pc] Trouble with Time Manager on colour display

peterr (04/16/83)

I have a copy of IBM's Time Manager (written by Microsoft) and it generally
treats the colour display card with the care required, writing to it only
during retrace times so as not to cause display glitches.  However, the
updated-every-second time is written without regard to retrace, causing a
continuously noisy display.  Does anyone have a fix for this?  I've spoken
to someone who claims they have a program that writes to colour memory at
arbitary times, with no glitching; can someone confirm this?  This must mean
that there are at least two versions of the colour card.
 p. rowley, U. Toronto   decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!peterr (@Berkeley for ARPA)