Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!captkidd From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Help Me! Mac II -> NTSC (repost) Message-ID: <13545@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 89 15:11:46 GMT References: <475@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU><4568@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 24 In article <4568@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian Martin) writes: > The biggest >drawback when we tried it was that the menu bars and both right and >left sides of the screen were cut off--makes it difficult to >demonstrate a user-friendly system with pull-down menus, or to open >a disk partition on the right side of the screen. Also, there >was a very annoying flicker on screen. All in all, quite a let down. While I haven't seen this hack work, we have the same problems when we try to output NTSC video with our NuVista 2M board (overlaying video an graphics on the monitor is no problem - it is the NTSC [TV] output which flickers and loses the edges). It is my understanding that this is a problem with NTSC video's limited bandwidth. >We're looking into replacing the apple color card with the new Raster >Ops ColorBoard 264, which MacWeek says will provide NTSC output in >addition to driving the Apple RGB monitor. Don't be surprised if the RasterOps board's output also loses the edges and flickers. -Ivan Internet: captkidd@athena.mit.edu