Howdy Y'all,
Wow, didn't know there would be such a disparity in opinion as to the
viability of the Mac TV as a computer. Thank you to those who
emailed me with suggestions and links. I maxed out the ram and got
the TV mode working.
I thought I would share something that I find interesting, as it may
be of benefit to anyone out there with a Mac TV or TV tuner card in
their Performa. I seemed to recall an old usenet thread about Sony
remote codes working on Mac TV tuner cards. So I fired up my old
Newton 130 (hey, no laughing;) and on it there was a program called
Sony Remote that I had once used as a novelty to operate my Sony cd
player. Yup, it works to change the channels, volume,
mute--everything but brightness and contrast. Here is the best part
though, the power button will start up the computer and shut it down,
even from the finder. Also, with a cd visible on the desktop, the
program has a cd controller that will play cd's, switch tracks, etc.
without launching the Apple cd player. Perhaps the Apple remote
control will do this too? I don't have one yet.
Should anyone out there want to try this, the Newton package is
called Sony Remote, is dated 1994 and is attributed to Craig Richmond
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you has trouble finding it let me know
as I probably have it on my hard drive, otherwise I can try to
remember how to export packages back to the mac desktop for emailing.
It is shareware and 26k to the best of my knowledge.
--Matt
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