zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) (10/05/89)
I'm sick of having two monitors (mono and RGB) on my desk. Is it possible to connect a third party hires RGB monitor that could handle all of the ST's resolutions? If such a thing is possible, how will the hires quality compare to the SM124? What is the price range on such monitors? zimm%portia@forsythe.stanford.edu
cwilliam@brillig.umd.edu (Christopher 'Merlin' Williamson) (10/05/89)
In article <5558@portia.Stanford.EDU> zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) writes: > I'm sick of having two monitors (mono and RGB) on my desk. Is it possible > to connect a third party hires RGB monitor that could handle all of > the ST's resolutions? If such a thing is possible, how will the hires > quality compare to the SM124? What is the price range on such monitors? I have a Magnavox that I am VERY satisfied with. It has analog, and digital RGB, as well as composite (TV/VCR video signal) and audio connections. Works great on my st (which uses a standard ANALOG RGB), IBMs usually use TTL (which is digital RGB) and TV/VCR/8bit Atari/etc all use composite (the video/audio ins usally RCA plugs). It has (in my opinion) a little better resolution than the ST color monitors, blowing away the new-style color monitors, and maybe a little better than the older ones. The price is a little CHEAPER than the ST monitor. I paid $200 for mine locally at full retail price. I recently got a second at a hamfest for $60. Very cool monitors (which I use as TVs most of the time. Also nice and light and they come with a nice 5 year warranty (something Atari doesnt provide). Any monitor that has Analog RGB and a audio in RCA plug will work. You do need to get a cable from that wierd Atari-specific monitor plug to the standard RGB plug with a little lead for the audio line. I had no trouble finding these cords locally at a large Atari dealer. Sorry, I dont have any specific names. (and no I am not affiliated with Magnavox, I am just a VERY pleased customer... you know the bit...) Chris /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ What I have said above may or may not be fact, you be the judge... Christopher Williamson | cwilliam@umd5.umd.edu | Arpa/InterNet (prefered) Human-Computer Int Lab | cwilliam@UMDD | BitNet Univ. of Maryland |...!uunet!umd5!cwilliam| UUCP College Pk, MD 20740 | (301) 779 - 5408 | If all else fails "Without water, we're all just three or four pounds of chemicals."
larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) (10/05/89)
Philips has a Personal Multisync with loadspeaker that works with all 3 resolution.... My friend uses one right now.... Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) (10/07/89)
In article <5558@portia.Stanford.EDU> zimm@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) writes: >Is it possible >to connect a third party hires RGB monitor that could handle all of >the ST's resolutions? If such a thing is possible, how will the hires >quality compare to the SM124? What is the price range on such monitors? Any "Multisync", "Flexscan" or the like can be wired up to the St to handle all 3 resolutions. Just follow the pinout of the monitor outlet; R, G and B are self explanatory, sync can be separetad (Hsync/Vsync) or composite and so on. The 2 scan modes (35 kHz for high res, 15 kHz for color) are switched by the mono detect line: ground tells the ST to do high res. Monitors, that are not able to handle scanning at multiple frequencies, cannot be used for all 3 graphic modes; they can possibly be damaged! The scanning frequency is (in older, "pre-multisync" models) used as time base for the high voltage generator, generating the 10 to 20 kilovolts necessary to accelerate the electron beam. The higher the frequency, the higher the voltage: a 15 kHz monitor (this is the video standard!) could be converted to an expensive heap of junk... hope, this helps hase -- Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP Dennis had stepped up into the top seat whet its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. (Douglas Adams; the long dark teatime...)
domen@cartan.crin.fr (Eric Domenjoud) (10/12/89)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: arc I got recently ARC for my ATARI ST from the archive server archive-server%panarthea@sun.com (binaries/volume1/arc) but it doesn't work. It seems that all bytes whose value was 0x0D were removed from the executable file ARC.TTP, perhaps by a virus. It's not only a problem by me, the file I got from the server was already altered. Is it possible to replace this file by a safe one or could somebody send me a safe version of ARC to the following adress: domen@loria.crin.fr Eric Domenjoud
koreth@panarthea.sun.com (Steven Grimm) (10/13/89)
In article <375@loria.crin.fr> domen@loria.crin.fr (Eric Domenjoud) writes: >It seems that all bytes whose value was 0x0D were removed from >the executable file ARC.TTP, perhaps by a virus. Sorry, the virus is really CP/M text file format, which ends lines of text in a CR-LF (0x0D/0x0A). My bet is that you're on a UNIX system, and something on there is "smart" enough to convert those end-of-lines to UNIX end-of-lines, which are simply LF (0x0A). How are you decoding the program? --- " !" - Marcel Marceau Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st sgrimm@sun.com ...!sun!sgrimm