#Remote Weather Crawler
28-Jun-93 21:12:14
Sb: #32499-#Remote Weather Crawler
Fm: A. Nick Draper 72520,2762
To: Frank Vanella 76527,723
Frank, the A. is a first initial though I use my second name. It keeps the
credit card people happy to have all the initials in the right places.8-)
I'm wondering why I can't just get an A600HD, a genlock to link my signal
and his signal and output it to the cable system. Then some software to do
the horizontal crawler across the bottom of the screen with the upper part
blank so his listings show through, as long as it's Arexx compatable and
multitasking software. Then a modem and some communications software. Then
use our existing IBM and modem at our end to send the updated forecast and
initiate the updating of it via Arexx on the Amiga.
Glad you brought it up as I'm a little concerned about power failures and
bumps knocking the system down when it is needed most (ie during a
thunderstorm). I hope a script can be put in the Amiga's start-up sequence
to restore the system.
I think I'll leave a message in the Arexx area for info on the scripting.
But does the video end sound ok to you? Do you know about any titling
software that can do this and is Arexx compatable? Sorry I'm a neophite in
the area of DTV, and info in mags is hard to find.
Nick.