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From: consp11@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler)
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Subject: NTSC vs. PAL screen checking (Was Re: JRComm....)
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Date: 2 May 90 17:02:25 GMT
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In article <892@tau.sm.luth.se>, d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes:
|>space@ncc1701.sub.org (Lars Soltau) writes:
|>>why does the stupid thing only run on a 80*25 window/screen? Hm? I have a
|>>704*282 pixels big Workbench screen and I bloody well expect any
professional
|>>software to not stuff me into any NTSC frame.
|>However, just like Lars, I'm getting very tired of all these NTSC frames that
|>US programs use all the time. I know it's easy to check if the machine is PAL
|>or NTSC. I don't want to have an unused stripe at the bottom of my screen...
|>So come on guys: when you write a program, make the screen 255 high if it's
|>a PAL machine and leave the 200-line screens for the inferior NTCS mode.

Sure, NTSC is inferior.  But, by that same token, I've seen a number of
games made outside of the US that go right off of the bottom edge of my
screen.  This makes it a bit harder to see things like score, number of
lives left, etc.

So it works both ways.  NTSC programmers and PAL programmers alike:
CHECK YOUR SCREEN HEIGHT AND WIDTH, and (obviously) USE THE CORRECT ONE.

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