Re: NetScape 5

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Jeff Blakeney (CUTjefbla@bconnex.net) wrote:
: On 26 Dec 1998 23:23:30 -0500, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave
: Althoff) wrote:

: >Question about Convert3200...
: >
: >My system contains a Video Overlay Card, and one of the unpleasant
: >side-effects of that card is that quite often, 3200 images look like crap.
: > Does anyone know if Convert3200 accounts for this?  I have a program here
: >someplace that I downloaded called "VOC3200" but I never figured out how
: >to make it work...

: I don't think Convert 3200 has any specific support of the Video
: Overlay Card.  I do know that SuperConvert does support the VOC,
: though.  SuperConvert allows you to view images in 320x400 or 640x400
: interlaced mode.

: 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.

: 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.

: 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-)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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