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* ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION! *
* You MUST read this otherwise *
* your monitor could be destroyed! *
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BlowUP030 Demoversion
This demo may be copied and passed to others for free as long as all the
files, espacially this README remain unchanged!
BlowUP030 (c) Georg Acher & Michael Eberl
=========================================
Warning:
--------
IF YOU HAVE A FIXED-FREQUENCIE MONITOR (E.G. A VGA OR SVGA) NEVER SELECT THE
'MS1/2' BUTTON IN BLOWCONF.PRG!!!!!
ONLY IF YOU LEAVE THIS BUTTON UN-SELECTED IT IS ENSURED THAT YOUR MONITOR
WON'T GET HORIZONTAL-FREQUENCIES THAT MIGHT DAMAGE IT!
Short-Manual for the BlowUP030-Demo:
------------------------------------
Run BLOWCONF.PRG (the demo runs only in 16 colors and with the ATARI-VGA-
adapter installed) and choose the monitor-type you are using:
VGA: fixed frequencies of
31.5kHz/60Hz
SVGA: fixed frequencies of
31.5/35.5kHz /60Hz
MS1/2: multiscans, e.g.
15-38kHz/30-55kHz at 50-100Hz
Only with a multiscan you are able to configure your resulution live,
because they are able to display all values in a certain range.
For VGA/SVGA this might be very dangerous.
*
* All chnges can be returned to their
* original value with UNDO (or the
* return-key)
*
LOAD CONF: displays a list of predefined resolutins. In this list you
find the monitor-type it is suitable for. Select one and
confirm with OK to install the resolution.
SAVE: The resolution that is configured at the moment is saved into
the 'BLOWBOOT.PRG' file in the AUTO-folder of your boot-device
(usually C:).
* ATTENTION:
* ----------
* BLOWBOOT.PRG has to be the last
* programm in the AUTO-folder
* (especially behind MultiTOS and
* NVDI). Select unsorted in the
* DESKTOP-menu to be sure
After the next RESET the new resolution will be used if you boot in
16 colors. If you do not, use the DESKTOP-menu to switch to 16 colors.
The special ability of the BlowUP030-system is that you are able
to configure the video-parameters very free. Vertical and horizontal
Screen-position, left, right, upper and lower margin, interlace-mode and
pixel-clock might be set freely (in certain margins given by the
Falcon-hardware) TO TAKE OUT THE BEST OF YOUR MONITOR.
If you have a multiscan and selected then MS1/2-mode you are able to find
the maximum - step-by-step.
With BLOWCONF you are able to install two resolutions for every color-depth.
BLOWACC enables you to select which one or even if one of the new
resolutions is used.
The SCREEN-SAVER is the newest feauture of BlowUP030:
If it is active it speeds up the Falcon at up to 70% (depending on the
Color-mode and resolution). There is an option to start screen-
saving (and ACCELERATION) immediately by moving the mous to the left border
and stopping there (takes about 1-2 seconds).
Attention: The saver is not compatible with very hardware-depending
programms like TEMPELMON that need V-blanks or use interrup 6.
LIMITATIONS OF THE demo-version against
the sold-versions (SV)
---------------------------------------
- only works in 16 colors (SV: 2,4,16,256 & TC)
- SV runs on SM124-monitors too
- fewer standard-configurations
than in the SV
- left & right margin changeable
only in steps of 10 (SV: 2)
- upper & lower margin changeable
only in steps of 5 (SV: 1)
(you might not get that high resolutions
out of your monitor as with the SV
because of this)
- Virtual-screen only up to 768*768 (not limited by the SV)
- Pixel-clock only 25 & 32 (SV with hardware up to 50MHz)
- SV has a 30-page manual with
"Tips & Tricks incluced" (ST-Magazin 8/93)
And now the prices for the full feautured BlowUP030:
Soft-only: 29DM
Hard-1: 99DM (for multiscans)
Hard-2: 129DM (more flexible to be
used on unflexible
monitors like VGA/
SVGA or SM124)
These are prices for within Germany (+p&p). Ask for prices outside Germany.
Upgrade from Soft-only to a hardware-version is possible.
For multiscans Hard-1 can take out the best of your Falcon - other companies
might call the 50MHz-pixel-clock 'pro' - for us its simply STANDARD.
Only with VGA and SM124- monitors, where certain frequencies have to be
kept you will need Hard-2.
Here some exampels for possible resolutions:
============================================
640*480, 2-16 colors, 110-124Hz n.i.
880*608, 2-16 colors, 69-76Hz n.i.
1024*768,2-16colors, 100-104Hz i
1280*960,2-16 colors, 67-69Hz i
640*480, 256 colors, 76-80Hz n.i.
880*608, 256 colors, 48-50Hz n.i.
880*608, 256 colors, 94-100Hz i
1024*768,256 colors, 65-67Hz i (at 27kHz hor.-frequencie)
480*480, TC , 57Hz n.i.
For further information and orders write to:
============================================
Acher & Eberl & Seibert GbR (e-mail: acher@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Eslarner Str.34 eberl@informatik.tu- ...
D-81549 Muenchen or seibert@informatik.tu- ... )
Germany
or (for the UK)
ssolutions@cix.compulink.co.uk
(System Solutions, London)
or (for the US)
Lexicor@world.std.com resp. drnibble@wpi.WPI.EDU
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