Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Roger.Sheppard From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Hertz Message-ID: <1991May19.111056.6849@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 19 May 91 11:10:56 GMT Article-I.D.: actrix.1991May19.111056.6849 References: <1991May18.122316.25048@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <1991May18.144553.17861@wam.umd.edu> Sender: Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz (Roger Sheppard) Organization: Actrix Networks Lines: 34 In article <1991May18.144553.17861@wam.umd.edu> dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes: > 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 We have been using the GoldStar Monitors here in NZ. for many years without any 50/60HZ problems at all, if they are set up correctly they will work ok. -- Roger W. Sheppard 85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...