| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 37.1 | Perhaps let us in on a few more symptoms | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Thu Apr 14 1988 11:41 | 16 |
| Is this a trick question, or do you not know that there is an options
menu in the desktop that allows you to choose your screen resolution as
one of low-res or medium-res? (assuming you have a color monitor
attached). When you make the selection the system reboots.
If this is a trick question, then I figure you must have made your own
connector, and accidently asserted the mono/color pin on the monitor
connector to ground, which tells the system a monochrome monitor is
attached.
If none of that works, perhaps your ST isn't set up for driving a PAL
monitor? How DO you tell the Atari to drive PAL anyway? Did you get it
in the U.S.?
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| 37.2 | use the menu | MAST::WALLACE | | Thu Apr 14 1988 11:44 | 10 |
| Go to the rightmost menu on the menu bar and click on "set preferences"
which will give you a dialog box, click on "medium", the ST will
then do a reset and bring you back to the desktop in medium res.
If you then save the desktop (another menu option) your ST will
always power up in medium resolution.
NOTE: This only works if you are using a color monitor.
Ray
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| 37.3 | I hate to have to tell you this. . . | AKOV11::KING | As you light your cigarette from the burning deck | Fri Apr 15 1988 04:03 | 9 |
| If you have to use the RF jack on the unit (RF converter to
Television), then GEM will not allow you to switch to medium
resolution. From what I have seen of ST's hooked up to Televisions,
this is not a bad thing as the screen is not very readable in low
resolution, and I would think medium would be unreadable. If you
are using the monitor jack (19(?) pin connector) then you should
be able to go to medium rez as described above.
Bob (who used to sell ST's) K.
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| 37.4 | Ahem... | LDP::WEAVER | Laboratory Data Products | Wed Apr 20 1988 00:27 | 11 |
| Re: .3
Certainly not true of my old 520 ST before I sold it. The ST has
no idea about a color monitor being attached other than the
monochrome detect line not being pulled low.
An ST and RF WILL work in medium rez (although it is not too great).
At least my old 520 STM did, and there are no signals on the monitor
pinouts to lead me to believe otherwise.
-Dave
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| 37.5 | Hurm. . . | AKOV11::KING | I drank WHAT!?! - Socrates | Thu Apr 21 1988 02:10 | 6 |
| Appears I was misinformed by those doing training.
Did not have Technical expertise to go through circuit diagrams,
etc to confirm statement.
Stand, er sit corrected.
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| 37.6 | Best of both worlds? | SEDOAS::TAYLOR | | Thu Apr 21 1988 09:38 | 17 |
| Talking about resolutions, I 'converted' my 1040 by adding a seven
pin din socket, connecting the RGB & Sync lines from the internals,
so that I could drive a colour TV, with RGB input. The Atari 'Helpline'
in London helped with the sync mixing (2 x 470 ohm then 1 x 220
ohm resistors), so now I can use my TV as a Monitor, and the kids
can watch the cartoons.
The resolution in 'LOW' is outstanding (T.V. is Hitachi, 14" screen),
and perfectly readable in 'MEDIUM', though I still need to play
around with some resistors on the colour lines to get a better focus.
To be honest, I've seen Atari colour monitors with worse resolution.
However, my colleague uses a 1040 with a modulator, and the resolution
is crap!
I've seen other methods of connection (different value resistors,
etc), but this one works for me!
Nice chattin'
Ken.T.
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