Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!dmb From: dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Hertz Message-ID: <1991May18.144553.17861@wam.umd.edu> Date: 18 May 91 14:45:53 GMT References: <1991May18.122316.25048@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: cscwam In article <1991May18.122316.25048@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes: >In article , achilles@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Paul McCallum) writes: >> >> Here's a question for you guys. Is it possible for someone to fix one's >>colour monitor so that it can work with 50 HZ without buying a new colour >>monitor, and would it be advisable and cheaper to just buy a new monitor. >>Thanks. >> >>Paul McCallum achilles@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca >>Edmonton Remote Systems: Serving Northern Alberta since 1982 > >Yes. There are several 50Hz programs for the ST (most of the time, they are >the only difference between euro and US versions of games). If you get >the demo called finalcut from atari.archive, it includes a program called >changehz.prg. Also, there are 50Hz booters, with which you can boot your >computer in 50Hz (for autobooting games and demoes). I think there is one >on atari.archive also, if not email me. You can only do this if you have a "recent" SC1224. The GoldStar monitors won't work in both modes unless you fiddle with the adjustment switches in the back. (Do this while the monitor is OFF.) In fact, GoldStar monitors evidently can't be adjusted to work in both modes no matter what you do. People with those monitors are just scr*wed when it comes to scan-rate dependent European software. Dave Baggett dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net