houser@mcnc.org (Kevin D. Houser ) (11/02/88)
Does anyone know if it is possible to hack a cable that will allow an ATARI 1040ST be used with a magnavox 8CM515 RGB-analog monitor? Also, how easy would it be to connect the 1040ST to a monochrome monitor ($80 type) and use the 640x400 screen resolution? Second, ever since I have been using my 40meg hard disk on the coco3, I have problems with multivue locking up when I try to take a directory. If I go back to booting off the floppy w/o the hard disk driver, MV works just fine. I'm using the B&B hard disk interface with /d0 and /dd as the hard disk, and BBHdisk.dr driver. Any suggestions? Kevin Houser houser@mcnc.org
koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce) (11/02/88)
Kevin Houser (houser@mcnc.org) writes: >Does anyone know if it is possible to hack a cable that >will allow an ATARI 1040ST be used with a magnavox 8CM515 >RGB-analog monitor? Also, how easy would it be to connect the >1040ST to a monochrome monitor ($80 type) and use the 640x400 screen >resolution? The Atari ST uses a non-standard sync timing which makes it difficult to attach normal RGBA monitors to it. I've heard a rumour about some company which sells a little box which shifts the sync enough to do the trick, but know nothing about it. Interestingly, most multisync monitors apparently can compensate for the non-standard sync. You can always try to hook it up, but I have heard that the picture ends up offset enough to be unusable. (Note: This is my vague recollection of some rumours I've heard. I could very well be wrong.) >Second, ever since I have been using my 40meg hard disk on the >coco3, I have problems with multivue locking up when I try >to take a directory. There are two major bugs in the default distribution of MV which really need to be fixed before you try to use it with a hard disk. The patches were listed a few months back in Dale Puckett's column in the Rainbow. The two bugs are: - MV will lock up if it finds a file with a three letter extension that doesn't have a corresponding AIF file - MV will lock up if it tries to read a directory with more than 256 files (it's not uncommon for hard disk CMDS dirs to get this large) - Tim Koonce
df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth) (11/08/88)
tim koonce (koonce@math.berkeley.edu) writes: -> Kevin Houser (houser@mcnc.org) writes: -> >Does anyone know if it is possible to hack a cable that -> >will allow an ATARI 1040ST be used with a magnavox 8CM515 -> >RGB-analog monitor? Also, how easy would it be to connect the -> >1040ST to a monochrome monitor ($80 type) and use the 640x400 screen -> >resolution? -> -> The Atari ST uses a non-standard sync timing which makes it difficult -> to attach normal RGBA monitors to it. -> ... -> (Note: This is my vague recollection -> of some rumours I've heard. I could very well be wrong.) Actually, in color mode the ST uses standard timing and signals. If you can work around the non-standard cable/connector, you're only concern will be adjusting the signal levels. On the other hand, in monochrome mode, it uses 70Hz non-interlaced which is a bit hard to come by. A number of people have reported success in comp.sys.atari.st by using a multi-sync monitor to handle both color and monochrome. -- Dale Farnsworth 602-438-3092 noao!asuvax!nud!df