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- Short: 72hz NTSC monitor driver WORKS!
- Author: Jess Sosnoski
- Uploader: starblaz@postoffice.ptd.net
- Type: hard/hack
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- Long:
- This is a replacement for the euro36 icon that emulates ntsc.
- It replaces my old hack of nt72, and works waaaay better.
- Just change a couple 'o tooltypes and you can make it do pal too.
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- Requirements:
- An Amiga with 2.x+, and a 2.1 or higher euro36 monitor driver.
- A monitor that will either handle a 72hz refresh rate, or a monitor with
- a vertical hold. An Amiga 1080, or Commodore 2002 will work--I tested it
- on both. (Well, the monitors are virtually identical anywayz)
- I don't know if this requires ECS or above, if it works on OCS, email me.
- I don't know what It'll do to a TV.
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- Results:
- Less flicker in interlace!
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- Disclaimer:
- USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
- I take NO responsibility whatsoever by the use/abuse of this hacked monitor.
- (if it makes your monitor blow up...tough!)
- Like the ITAL36 driver's docs say: You have been warned.
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- Compatibility:
- Tested with a variety of applications and games.
- Some OS-unfriendly programs that bang the hardware to do ntsc-pal switches
- will very likely mess things up.
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- Caveats:
- NO VERTICAL OVERSCAN, YOU ARE NOW LIMITED TO 200 or 400 pixel high screens!
- (The cost of a higher refresh rate on ECS)
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- WEIRD STUFF:
- Contacting the hacker....
- (Well, I'm NOT the author of the monitor, just the hacker of the monitor)
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- Snail-Mail:
- Jess Sosnoski
- 651 Hillside Drive
- Mount Carmel, PA 17851-2463
- USA
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- Phone: (yea..right)
- (717) 339-4796
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- Email:
- starblaz@postoffice.ptd.net
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- Web Page:
- COMING SOON
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- *NOTE* if you're using UNd64, addfreq, or tinypalntsc, send mail for that
- to the above address instead of the one listed in the docs for those files.
- Oh, yea, if you've read Kick31onA600, send to above address too.
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- Enjoy...Knock Yourselves out!
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- History:
- 1.0 Hacked CBM's v40 ntsc driver, didn't always work as planned, and
- I even had to write a little 64-byte executable to bang the hardware
- to get it to work right in some circumstances. This proved unstable
- when using pic-viewers 'n' stuff that banged the hardware...forcing
- me to use the 64-byte banger every time it got unbanged.
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- 2.0 Messed with the euro36 driver until it stopped bending the top of
- my screen over to the right.
- It turned out that I had to set the tooltype: VBSTOP=200
- I also decided not to change the name/screenmode of the driver,
- because I didn't know what effect it would have, and of course,
- Laziness!
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 1380 836 39.4% 16-Mar-96 21:06:12 Euro36.info
- 2450 1399 42.8% 16-Mar-96 21:16:30 NT70.readme
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- 3830 2235 41.6% 16-Mar-96 12:47:40 2 files
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