) (03/13/90)
First of all: I need a moniter cable from a dead monitor. I am building the RGB->composite converter with the instructions from Anees Munshi (ver 1.0) does anyone have any hints/tips for me? One tip that would REALY help is how to order the MC1377 chip, I haven't found anywhere (read that 'even Motorola') that can get the right order number... 2: A hint that may or may not be obvious for those of us lucky ones who can ftp :-) when tring to find a program on terminator try: 'cd /atari', 'mget */firstpart*' say you are looking for overscan.arc 'mget */overscan*' if it finds a match it will report the path/name and ask 'y/n', answer 'n' and cd to the path. (answering 'y' won't work) 3: A long while back I asked why Uniterm was crashing on my system, I found out a short time later... Personal Pascal v1.0 does something bad on 1.2 TOS. To see what I am talking about: go to any dialog menu (in help screen, not terminal screen) select 'cancel' and quickly go up to menu bar so that a drop down menu should come up. Vola! cursor disapers, and nifty junk is left behind mouse! I claim Personal Pascal is the offending software because other programs written with it do the same thing: GEM kermit, and another that I can't remember right now. This behavior has been confirmed by a nice person who's name I forget. Please at least try it before flaming me! PS: Please reply if this helps... Its lonely being a Ma***g repairman! Blaine Lee blee @ plains.nodak.edu
kerchen@muztag.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) (03/13/90)
In article <3764@plains.UUCP> blee@plains.UUCP (Blaine Lee CME4FUN! ) writes: >First of all: I need a moniter cable from a dead monitor. >I am building the RGB->composite converter with the instructions from >Anees Munshi (ver 1.0) does anyone have any hints/tips for me? >One tip that would REALY help is how to order the MC1377 chip, I >haven't found anywhere (read that 'even Motorola') that can get the >right order number... > I suggest that you check out the Nov. 1988 (?) issue of Radio Electronics. It's got an article on building an RGB-to-NTSC converter and it talks specifically about using it with the ST (as well as IBM). If you can't find this issue (and note that I'm not sure about the issue date--the issue was around that time) I can send you a photocopy of the article. There are a few errors in the ST monitor pinout, but other than that it's pretty good. The author also offers a kit which supposedly contains all the parts necessary for the ST version of the converter (including the monitor connector) but some of them (the monitor connector and delay line) weren't included in the kit which I recieved. So, beware if you choose that route; I'm still fighting to get those parts. The kit costs something like $35, plus a few bucks for postage. Otherwise, getting some of the parts, like the MC1377, can be a real pain in the pooper (but, I suppose you already know this). I hope this helps. Paul Kerchen kerchen@kongur.ucdavis.edu kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu
kerchen@muztag.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) (03/13/90)
Oops, in my recent follow up to this subject, I mentioned that the RGB-to-NTSC converter was in the Nov `88 issue of RE. I meant to say that it can be found in the Nov `89 issue of RE. Sorry if I rocked anyone's world with this little mistake. Paul Kerchen kerchen@kongur.ucdavis.edu kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu