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From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bill White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MULTISYNC RECOMMENDATIONS
Summary: You're using the wrong mode!
Keywords: NEC 3D, shadowing
Message-ID: <1199@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 9 Mar 90 02:37:06 GMT
References: <900223.22031795.042770@SFA.CP6> <940@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <940@lzaz.ATT.COM>, bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (Bruce Szablak) writes:
> My main beef with the multisync in hi-rez mode is what I term "shadowing".
> I see characters and lines "echoed" in a fashion like that seen on TVs.
> The problem is not too bad in reverse video mode. I suspect the cause is
> the ganging of a 9 pin gender changer and 9 to 15 pin adapter to get
> the NEC 3D to talk to the video box I have. Even without that problem the
> Multisync is not as sharp as a true monochrome monitor.

	The problem is you're using the NEC's "monochrome" mode, not the
NEC's color mode.  I've been using NEC in monochrome for a half a year,
and it's *sharper* than the true monochrome.  Call up NEC and ask them
for a pinout of the 15-pin adaptor.  I don't recall offhand what my
pinout is, and I'm in the lab right now, so I can't look, but what you
can do is buy the Practical Solutions "multisync" cable and go from there.
There is an article in terminator about how to go about connecting it;
this is for the Multisync 2 but the idea behind it works with the 3D as
well.
	If all else fails, call NEC and tell them your situation.  I
ended up getting it right by playing around with it, and the cable is
a real mess, all the wires are the same color, and I don't want to pull
it out and check to see which pin goes to which until I have to.  I
admit, it's not the easiest thing in the world to do, but it did save
me from having to use two monitors.

PS: Using the 9-pin gender changer ganged to the 9-to-15 pin adaptor
probably IS the problem.  If switching the "color" switch on the front
panel causes your screen to change, then it isn't attatched correctly.
The same goes if your characters blur into each other.


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