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From: koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce)
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Subject: Re: ATARI 1040ST, COCO3
Summary: 1) Expect problems, 2) patch MV
Keywords: monitors atari coco multiview
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Date: 2 Nov 88 00:21:08 GMT
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Kevin Houser (houser@mcnc.org) writes:
>Does anyone know if it is possible to hack a cable that
>will allow an ATARI 1040ST be used with a magnavox 8CM515
>RGB-analog monitor? Also, how easy would it be to connect the
>1040ST to a monochrome monitor ($80 type) and use the 640x400 screen
>resolution?

The Atari ST uses a non-standard sync timing which makes it difficult
to attach normal RGBA monitors to it.  I've heard a rumour about some
company which sells a little box which shifts the sync enough to do
the trick, but know nothing about it.  Interestingly, most multisync
monitors apparently can compensate for the non-standard sync.  You
can always try to hook it up, but I have heard that the picture ends
up offset enough to be unusable.  (Note:  This is my vague recollection
of some rumours I've heard.  I could very well be wrong.)

>Second, ever since I have been using my 40meg hard disk on the
>coco3, I have problems with multivue locking up when I try
>to take a directory.

There are two major bugs in the default distribution of MV which really
need to be fixed before you try to use it with a hard disk.  The patches
were listed a few months back in Dale Puckett's column in the Rainbow.
The two bugs are:
   - MV will lock up if it finds a file with a three letter extension that
     doesn't have a corresponding AIF file
   - MV will lock up if it tries to read a directory with more than 256 files
     (it's not uncommon for hard disk CMDS dirs to get this large)

						- Tim Koonce