#DC1tv comments
28-Mar-95 23:15:05
Sb: #4155-#DC1tv comments
Fm: Jim Gast 73457,2746
To: Thomas H. Giebink 75573,3541
>> I think I almost have my DC1tv problems all solved.
I'm close too. My problem had been my Adaptec controller card. Unlike you, I
have an ISA bus Adaptec 1540CF with ROM at CC00. This conflicts with the
default address for the RAM on the DC1 TV. I moved the Miro DC1 TV RAM to D000
and now I can do captures. I haven't tuned anything for speed yet, and the
captures drop a few frames every 4 minutes or so. Moreover, I had to
reconfigure my Ensoniq soundscape sound card and now I will have to spend time
getting the MIDI to work again. Sigh.
> the exclusion must appear in both files
Yep. I added "X=D000-D3FF" to the end of the EMM386.EXE line in Config.sys and
also added "EMMExclude=D000-D3FF" to the [386Enh] section of SYSTEM.INI.
> an ATI MACH64 and an Adaptec2940W.
Today I ordered an Adaptec 2940 (for PCI bus) to get both the speed increase
and the simplification of ROM, I/O, IRQs, etc. They didn't have the much
faster wide Adaptec 2940W at Gateway and I don't have wide hard disks, but I
suspect I should have insisted on wide anyway.
I'm one breakthru closer with no help from any vendor. I still swear I will
buy the first PCI bus video capture card that comes along. Without hesitation.
> System.ini [MACX] section, add "Bitmap=off" & "Bitmaps=off"
I haven't tried that. What problem did that fix?
Jim Gast