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- Short: Use MagicWB on a TV *WITHOUT FLICKER*
- Author: nc2@st-andrews.ac.uk (Neil Crawforth)
- Requires: 8-colour interlaced Workbench, AGA chipset
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- This is an evaluation version of MagicTV, a program designed to
- VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE interlace flicker when using a TV, to allow
- more A1200 users to use MagicWB, NewIcons etc. It is currently
- limited to running on an 8-colour Workbench screen only.
-
- Background:
- Interlace flicker is caused because an interlaced screen is displayed
- in two parts - first the even numbered lines are scanned across the
- TV screen, then the odd numbered lines. If there is a horizontal line
- on the screen, one pixel high, then it will be displayed in one of the
- two scans but not the other, and so it will flicker. MagicTV gives every
- pixel in one scan a counterpart in the other, preventing this flicker.
- No resolution is lost, and, unlike less effective flicker fixers, no contrast
- is lost.
-
- I developed the system over two years ago, to be able to run a
- 16-colour interlaced Workbench with my TV. I still use that program
- today, without problems (other than those mentioned below). MagicTV
- is a new version of that, designed for public release, with the aim of
- giving people with low-end A1200 setups the chance to use MagicWB.
-
- Installation:
- * Select a hires, interlaced, 8-colour screenmode for your Workbench.
- * Take a couple of headache pills, or double-click on the MagicTV icon.
- * Be amazed for a few seconds, or e-mail me if it doesn't work.
- * Drag MagicTV into your WBStartup drawer.
-
- Features:
- * Runs as a Commodity.
- * Allows the Workbench screen to be closed.
- * Automatically adjusts to palette changes.
- * Written in E!
- * Pretty small.
-
- Problems:
- * Changes mouse pointer colours. Change your pointer to suit them.
- * Causes problems with playing animations, and AMOS programs
- (weird flicker every half second, due to MagicTV LockPubScreen()ing
- the Workbench screen).
-
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- E-mail me if MagicTV does not work on your system, or if you wish to
- register as a user (I'll send you a copy of all updates to MagicTV),
- or just to acknowledge the hard work that has gone into MagicTV...
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- Neil Crawforth, 1997
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