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- From: blake@blkbox.COM (Blake Scruggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 COMPOSITE OUT BUG?!
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 18:21:44 -0600
- Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
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- wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block) writes:
-
- >Antony Alonso (antony.alonso@svis.org) wrote:
- >: Greetings:
-
- >: A friend of mine hooked my A1200 up to his composite-only monitor via an RCA
- >: type jack. He reports that when a program opens up a custom screen th
- >: display goes to garbage. He can switch back to the Workbench screen, but
- >: when he does this and clicks on another application iconk, the pointer
- >: changes to the busy icon and the system locks up. He says he heard something
- >: about this being the case on the Composite Out connector. Is this a
- >: Commodore-inspired bug?
-
- >: Seems like a good question for Warren Block...
-
- >Who, me? 8-)
-
- >I've never heard of this before. It seems very doubtful that this would
- >be a hardware bug, at least with just composite.
-
- >It sounds much more like a software patch of some type is causing
- >trouble; a screen-switching or multi-utility, maybe?
-
- >--
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- I regularly use my composite out on my 1200 for Video/VCR,
- Now you know why I got the A2k, Hopefully a PAR soon...
- But I have had no probs while using my IDEK MSInk and out
- puting composite at the same time. Could'nt stand to do just
- Composite.
-
- Blake Scruggs A(Nice)1200 '030x50x32M : A2K '030 3.1: blake@blkbox.com
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