From: Groepaz (groepaz_at_gmx.net)
Date: 2004-06-29 23:10:36
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 22:25, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> Please have a look at the message
> http://www.softwolves.pp.se/misc/arkiv/cbm-hackers/1/1520.html and the
> discussions around that time (April 1999). Do you have first-hand
> experience of the "smoke poke" in action?
first hand...no. i was told in school (were we had a bunch of 8032's and
simelar gear) that a certain program they bought killed one of the older
modells while it worked great on the others. ofcourse that might just
have happened coincedential, however i remember reading a lot of warnings
related to that in magazines.... i think i also stumbled about some
references to it when looking for pet (or to be more precise, 8032) info
on the web recently. having that said - could be this only works for machines
with a certain 3rd party modification (we had lots of that stuff at school).
> Remember, on the PET, the horizontal and vertical sync rates are fixed.
> On the VDC (C128) or the TED (264 series), you could probably fry some
> monitor or TV by modifying the timings. My 14" Sony is still alive even
> after some torturing with NTSC signals. (It whistled a little but showed
> a black&white picture.)
i have first hand experience with killing a phillips monitor (1084 "clone"
if i am not mistaken) by accidently using screwed timings on a psx for
that matter :o)
gpz
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