enforcer@pawl.rpi.edu (Paul J Stewart) (05/09/90)
a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes: > What is going to happen when some determined idiot puts > a 31.5 KHz signal into a regular 15.75 KHz monitor? > How far does 2.0 go to prevent this? > <-Harvey Hmm... It depends on how determined this idiot is. If you are talking about Preferences, then no, it will not make the monitor recieve something that it knows it shouldn't. However if this guy goes over to the back of the pc, and hard-wries his 1084 into the VDE port, then... well, lets not consider that an operating system's obligation to check for that. >PS. Does anyone have a list of the various Agnus & Denise version numbers? I don't know what you'd need one o' those for, but I'll have one too if some- one has it! B) -- -------------------------+--------------+-----------------------+-------------- Sigfile killed in combat | Paul Stewart | enforcer@pawl.rpi.edu | GJ4D@RPITSMTS -------------------------+--------------+-----------------------+--------------
jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) (05/10/90)
In article <1695@mindlink.UUCP> a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes:
)
) One other ECS.GFX_2.0.UnPreferences_2.0 question I have been
) wondering about is...
) What is going to happen when some determined idiot puts
) a 31.5 KHz signal into a regular 15.75 KHz monitor?
) How far does 2.0 go to prevent this?
) <-Harvey
You have to declare that you have a suitable monitor hooked up, in your
startup-sequence, to make the 31.5 modes "available". You can always
lie to your startup-sequence, but in my experience, monitors don't
care too much if you feed them the wrong signal. They just look "funny".
I think the "exploding monitors" myths come out of IBM's original monochrome
monitor and trying to program your Hercules card in basic.
jimm
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