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In article <95276@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, <thompson@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
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>    When I play games on my ST I use my T.V. because of the much larger screen.
>Some of the games I bought are from england and they run at a different
>frequency, causing the screen to flip. The problem is that my T.V. doesn't
>have a manual vertical hold, and since the T.V. doesn't adjust enough by
>itself it will always flip. So my question is, is there a hardware hookup that
>will adjust the frequency or maybe a "good" virus that would disable the
>programs ability to change the frequency available. Also, an explanation of
>why the programs change the frequency in the first place would be appreciated.

Well, to answer your last question first, games frequently resync the monitor
to have more clock cycles available for other stuff.  If you run some games 
(or demos, which also often do this) at 60Hz (USA standard), they slow down 
tremendously.  Now, to my understanding, european monitors default to 50Hz.
Thus, you need what is called a 50Hz Booter.  It is a small program that 
runs, then tells you to insert the disk to be booted and press a key.  The 
Booter then reboots, but leaves the monitor syncing at 50Hz.  If there is 
not such a booter on atari.archive, I can post one there.  I can also email
you a copy, if you like.  

I do not know if this will work on your televison, I have never tried it.  I 
would imagine that it will though.

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