RE: [stella] problems with monitor syncing

Subject: RE: [stella] problems with monitor syncing
From: Chris Wilkson <ecwilkso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 15:05:28 -0400
Ain't gonna happen.  Use the line buffer.  (see my other email)
Sad, but simple fact that you'll just have to deal with.

-Chris

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Adam Wozniak wrote:

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> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Fred Quimby wrote:
> > 99% of VGA monitors cannot sync to a horizontal frequency lower than about
> > twice that of a television (i.e. most VGA's can't do less than about 30
> > kHz.)  Some really old VGA monitors will, but I wouldn't expect that people
> > are going to own these monitors.
> >
> > A workable solution would be to store the data from each scanline in a
> > buffer.  Once full, output the buffer at twice the speed, and do it twice.
> > In fact this is exactly what many simple TV to VGA converters do.
>
> *grumble*
>
> Any way to find out before buying a monitor, how low in frequency it can go?
> We need to get down to what here, 15.72 KHz?
>
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