Re: NetScape 5

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 29 Dec 1998 01:33:14 -0500, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave
Althoff) wrote:

>: I think the "crappy" images you get when viewing 3200 colour images is
>: probably the same I've run into.  I notice it most often when playing
>: The Tinies, which uses 3200 colour images between every 10 levels.
>
>Bingo.

Heh.  I just recently reinstalled The Tines (The Tinies Construction
Kit to be exact) and have been playing it again from time to time.  I
never finished it the first time I started playing it so maybe I'll
get through it all this time.

I shouldn't need to delete it again to make space as I'm now running a
1 GB hard drive.  :-)

>: I was told, by Mitch Spector if I recall correctly, that to fix the
>: problem you just need to plug a cable between the motherboard
>: composite video out and the VOC's composite video in.  Apparently the
>: VOC isn't synchronizing correctly with the software that is changing
>: the colours on the fly and by hooking up that cable you are
>: synchronizing the VOC with the motherboard VGC thereby synchronizing
>: the VOC with the software through an indirect route.
>
>I've heard of this fix.  Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work.  See, on
>my system, the VOC tries to overlay computer over the signal coming in
>from that port, so while hooking up the cable fixed the timing problem, it
>caused another problem:  a double image caused by the composite desktop
>image overlaying the RGB desktop.  Or something like that.  It's been a
>while since I tried it.

If you get the double image then you just need to adjust the key and
non-key colours to graphics only using the VideoMix NDA.  If this is
too much bother I'm sure I could whip up an init that will
automatically set the key and non-key colours to be 100% graphics so
that the motherboard VGC image, or any incoming video for that matter,
won't appear unless you manually change the mix levels with the
VideoMix NDA.

By the way, it is that double image effect that I was going to use to
write FaceLift drivers for the VOC so that us VOC owners could get
640x200 with 16 colours and 320x200 with 256 colours.  The only
problem being that the user will have to make some adjustments to the
components on the VOC to get the motherboard and VOC images to line up
exactly.  Kind of like setting the focus of a monitor but with much
lower voltages.  :-)

>: Enough rambling, just hook up the cable and you should be okay.  :-)
>
>That, or just go back to the RGB port for viewing 3200 images.  Kind of a
>pain, though, the way my system is set up...  8-)

Yeah, that's why I like the RCA composite video cable fix.

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