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From: fontenot@rice.edu (Dwayne J. Fontenot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Help Me! Mac II -> NTSC (repost)
Keywords: video,rgb,II
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Date: 14 Aug 89 21:13:23 GMT
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In article <475@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:
>
>I recently saw an article in MacWeek with a story which interested me. Well,
>actually it's somewhat more than interest. I need to be able to do this!
>
[stuff about the following making no sense at all deleted...]
>
>==========
>>From MacWeek, August 8th, 1989, page 20: (For those of you who don't get
>MacWeek, but were at the Expo, this was the copy which was given out free.)
>Reproduced without permission. Sidebar entitled, "You'll need a custom cable"
>Text follows:
>
[stuff about assembling a special cable deleted...]
>
>Finally, there's a piece of software associated with this little hack. To
>quote MacWeek again, [it is] "a free software utility developed at Apple...
>[which was] first distributed at the Apple Developers's Conference in May and
>soon to be available on bulletin boards like CompuServe and Usenet..." Maybe
>someone with Phil & Dave's would like to make it available for ftp-ing (or
>was it not on the CD?).
>
>Anyway, I need to make some videos with my mac and I don't want to have to buy
>an expensive genlock board. This seems like a quick (& VERY dirty) hack which
>would save me $1000 and do a sufficiently good job to suit my needs.

The utility in question is distributed by Apple on the demo disk of the 
32-Bit QuickDraw package. The utility is called the Macintosh II Video
Card Utility (long name) and is described as a "Moitors CDEV extension".
The readme file that comes with the utility emphasizes that this software
is provided as a service and is _not_ supported by Apple.

Hardware required:
   o Mac II with a 4 or 8 bit color board.
   o special cable (get your parents to put it together)

Software required:
   o System 6.0.3 or later
   o Monitors 4.0 (included with 32-Bit QD)
   o General CDEV (included with 32-Bit QD)
   o 32-Bit QD

The readme file seems pretty complete (its long so I won't post it here)
and tells exactly how to construct the special cable needed.
Unfortunately, since this is part of an Apple software distribution, I don't
know if I can distribute it over the net.

BTW, I don't remember seeing this software on Phil and Dave's...

>Thanks...
You're welcome...

>Adam

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Dwayne Jacques Fontenot : fontenot@uncle-bens.rice.edu
Computing Information Services Microconsultant ; Rice University, Houston TX
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