Ah, yes... I had nearly forgotten about that. I recall having trouble doing asm video programming because of some hardware cost-cutting thingie, something about a wierdly wired bunch of NOR gates or something... But anyway, I take it that this would be the cause of the minor ghosting and shadows that I noticed? The video card that I will be using in my wearable is an old CGA card with an NTSC output, so I assume that the wearable will be clearer than the Laser was (though the Laser really wasn't that bad). On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Matthew J Backes wrote: > Keep in mind that Apple ]['s and their clones (though the laser is radically > different under the hood) don't put out a true NTSC signal. They were > designed when crystals were expensive, so the original apple based all of > it's clocks on divisions and subdivisions of ONE crystal. > > For that reason, the signal is usually a little skewed from proper NTSC. > While not a problem for most televisions, some VCRs and more arcane video > equipment (such as camcorders displays or goggles) may have trouble with it. -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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