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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Booting in 50Hz mode
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Date: 6 Jun 91 12:41:30 GMT
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In article <2773461@MVB.SAIC.COM>, steveg@cseic.saic.com (Stephen Harold Goldstein) writes:
>I'm trying to view a couple of demos from the archives at umich, and
>am having some problems - they seem to load fine, but 
>the screen starts 'rolling' immediately - I assume I need to put my system
>in 50Hz mode, but the following 'fixes' also from the archives ALSO make the
>screen roll (before the demos load):  hertz.arc, swaphz.arc, 50hzboot.prg
>
>I've got a Mega 4 running U.S. TOS 1.4.  Any suggestions?

You need to adjust your color monitor.  I had to when I first bought my 
machine, and have not had to since (so you should not have to do it every 
time you switch Hz).  However, others have stated that they did not have 
as much success.  It does not hurt to try though.  There are a couple of 
marked plastic pot screws embeded in the back of the monitor.  Find the 
v-hold one and turn (ONLY use a plastic TV screwdriver, and be careful).

>Stephen Goldstein     steveg@cseic.saic.com
>My first Atari system? A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, C(not G)TIA graphics
>Disclaimer:  That's not what I said.

Wow, me too.  I bought my first computer in 1979, and it was a 16k Atari 800.
Best damn computer they made (I still miss the keyboard feel).

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