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March_1998
Re: Cinemenu results...(Zonn?)


From: Zonn ( )
Date: Thu Mar 26 1998 - 13:36:11 CST


On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:58:41 -0800, Clay Cowgill < > wrote:

>
>> Did you see the LED flickering on the motherboard, Clay? (Paul's
>> original program never turned the LED off, so that might be the case
>> this time...then it'd be pretty hard to spot the resetting.)
>>
>LED looked to be on solid... If it's software controllable, have the
>state toggle at the end of the draw routine. We'll see if it's
>completing or not...

As Paul will tell you, that's a bad thing. The LED is hooked up to the reset
circuitry. When the LED is on, the CPU is in a reset state.

It probably only looks solid, but instead is flickering at a very fast rate.
(If it were solid you should see nothing on the screen.)

-Zonn

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