Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!steveg From: steveg@cseic.saic.com (Stephen Harold Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Booting in 50Hz mode Keywords: 50Hz BOOT Message-ID: <2865725@MVB.SAIC.COM> Date: 14 Jun 91 13:14:13 GMT References: <2773461@MVB.SAIC.COM> <1991Jun6.124130.14365@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Sender: steveg@cseic.saic.com Organization: Science Applications International Corporation, Vienna, VA Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: Mvb.Saic.Com (I wrote about problems with my screen rolling in 50Hz mode)... boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu wrote: >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). *THANKS* that did the trick! Now can anyone tell me just who these guys are that wrote things like the WHATTHEHECK and Life's a bitch demos? The demos are pretty neat but I'm concerned about references to 'ripping' sounds from commercial games and 'copy parties' in their 'scroll texts'. Are these demos nothing more than cut and paste jobs of stolen code and artwork? -- --- 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.