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- From: 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ryan K. Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: PAL DCTV doesn't seem to work on A4000s!!
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 03:42:09 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
- Lines: 38
- Message-ID: <00966526.35E103A0@vms.csd.mu.edu>
- References: <johnr.01iy@rowe.adsp.sub.org>
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- In article <johnr.01iy@rowe.adsp.sub.org>, johnr@rowe.adsp.sub.org (John Rowe) writes:
- >
- >After a long wait for my A4000 to arrive, and being much relieved during this
- >period to see the many posts here and there attesting to the fact that DCTVs
- >work fine on A4000s, now that it's finally here my PAL DCTV won't work with
- >it! Has anyone out there got a PAL DCTV to work properly with an A4000!?
- > ^^^
- >Here are the symptoms:
- >
- >The DCTV will pass a standard PAL or NTSC screen through and spit out a
- >standard composite image fine; in this case, as you would expect, the DCTV
- >remains inert, and merely passes the signal through and converts it to
- >composite.
- >
- >Also understandably, if you try and display in an AGA screen mode (e.g. DBLPAL
- >or DBLNTSC) it sends the DCTV's composite display bezerk!
- >
- >HOWEVER, when you display a DCTV image and line it up to the point where
- >DCTV normally displays it in all its glory, the composite display goes black!
- >Run DCTVPaint and the same thing happens as soon as any DCTV encoded image
- >appears - e.g. the gadget panel in DCTV Paint!!??
- >
- >I spoke with another PAL DCTV owner here in Australia yesterday who had also
- >just received his A4000 and he found exactly the same problem with his DCTV!
- >
- >DO ANY PAL DCTVs WORK WITH A4000s!!?? 8-(
- >
-
- I don't know, but here are some pointers: 1) Make sure the display
- isn't being promoted. 2) Try my program, 'DSwitch' and put the
- DCTV into RGBI mode (see the docs), that will (better use "maybe") force
- your DCTV to encode the signal no matter what. It is available on
- hubcap.clemson.edu in the utils directory 'DSwitch.lzh'.
-
- Good luck (DCTV on a NTSC A4000 is quite nice!)
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