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From: johnf@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500 Crashing Big Time
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Date: 18 Mar 90 00:56:32 GMT
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In article <1990Mar17.051413.7321@aucs.uucp> 871579l@aucs.UUCP (Todd Lowe) writes:
>Just recently I had a particularly strange and scaring crash with myA500.
[overheating Agnus story deleted...]
>I had been running with PALboot ( giving me a PAL
>screen on an NTSC system) and a few people said it may have been messing the
>chip up.  I thought the new Agnus was both PAL and NTSC in the same chip
>(ie. only one version supporting both), but haven't used PAL since just in case.
>
>Could someone with a little knowledge please let me know if this has happened
>to anyone else, and if it was due to PALboot or what.
>
Well, I don't know what could have been wrong with your Agnus, but I use
PALboot all the time, and have had no such problem.

John


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