- Blog entry posted in 'Uncategorised', July 27, 2010.
As of today, 27JUL10, i see that Video Test Bench has been downloaded 225 times!!!! That's a lot more interest than i expected. What i haven't got is any feedback (like, dislike, how do i use test screen XYZ, why doesn't it work with my Obscura 2000 video card?). One question i have in particular is whether the midnight rollover bug in the burn-in test sequence is really gone or not. I remember fixing it and testing it, but i have lost some of the source files through the years, and i wasn't completely clear what the last build date was.
Commentswafhggth, August 27, 2010
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unclejed613, October 11, 2010
you can't "watch" it (watching a test pattern is about like watching grass grow...), it's not a you-tube video, it's a piece of test software.... to use it, you have to have some way of running DOS, an ancient operating system from the early days of desktop computers. DOS had no GUI, and was almost completely run from the "Command Line Interface" (and we had to walk uphill in a snowstorm to and from school, with a big bag of books and slide-rules, and all of our telephones were chained to the wall with wires...) there was no internet at the time (unless you were a college professor or working on a govt project), just a loose network of dialup BBS systems with 300 baud modems. back then we actually used computers to get work done, and Video Test Bench was one way of doing work.... testing computer monitors so i could repair them.... computers (and monitors) were overpriced and underpowered, so i actually made some money repairing monitors and selling VTB...... [QUOTE=wafhggth;bt325]Can you tell me where to watch Video Test Bench so that I can give some feedback? --- [url=http://www.gindart.com]Gindart - Find the Best Value Consumer Electronics[/url][/QUOTE]
WScottCross, March 21, 2011
I am running VTB 4.4 and noted that the initial splash screen shows version 4.4, but the menu screens are showing a version number of 4.3. Also, the app did lockup when I ran it overnight, so I'm guessing that means the midnight rollover bug is still present.
unclejed613, March 27, 2011
the menu screens are a bit of an "oops". the midnight rollover bug was something i thought i had corrected, but somehow didn't make it into the "final" source code. sorry about that.... i'll have to look into that and see if i can correct it
WScottCross, June 02, 2011
Is there any way to work around this? I guess I could try and find a way to reboot the machine a few seconds before midnight. I am trying to use this for some testing that will last for several weeks unattended.
unclejed613, June 03, 2011
let me look at the code again this weekend... it's probably something simple like resetting the timer value each loop or something.... i could have done it with a for-next loop, but that would make the screen change speed dependent on the cpu speed, and it just be a flashing blur on newer machines... if you were just using it for overnight burn-in testing, you could set the cmos clock 12 hours off... then "midnight" would be at noon. to reboot the machine you could run a TSR that reboots the machine just before midnight, but it would have to be running in V86 mode to do that on a 386 or higher.
