Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!xanth!indri!caesar!blake!ogccse!afoster From: afoster@ogccse.ogc.edu (Allan Foster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MicroTV and NTSC Message-ID: <4360@ogccse.ogc.edu> Date: 24 Aug 89 07:28:16 GMT References: <4086@shlump.nac.dec.com> <494@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: afoster@ogccse.UUCP (Allan Foster) Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 40 In article <494@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) writes: >sarrel@cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes: >> I've been following these two subject threads (the Micro TV in a >> window on a Mac II and the cable and software that will get NTSC >>... >> live picture of what you were doing on the mac screen in a window... > >Uh, I don't think so... > >The video out hooks to a monitor or vcr. You don't see what you're doing >unless you have a monitor hooked to the vcr (if that is where the mac is >... >software that slows the scan rate of the card down to NTSC scan speed slows >the computer down 40 ro 60%. You're going to have one _SLOW_ machine, if >it works at all. > > No Not at all. Sure you caould have the set up described. With a splitter out on the video cable so that it hooked up to both the MicroTV and a monitor you could indeed se what you were doing in a window. Make for some interesting recursive stuff tooo... As far as slowing the machine down... MicroTV does slow the mac down a bit but I think that 30% may be a bit excessive. As far as the NTSC code slowing the mac down 50% NO WAY! I wrote an init to do that 18 months ago and there was no apparent slowdown at all. Why should there be? All the init does is change some of the hardware registers in the card changing what it displays, the mac should not change speed at all! Regards PS. I would really like to see myself in a window! Allan -- Allan Foster UUCP : tektronix!ogcvax!afoster UseNet: afoster@cse.ogc.edu GEnie : A.FOSTER AppleLink : D1663 MacNet : FOSTER