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From: bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson)
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Subject: Re: JRComm (Was Re: AMIGA too slow for speeds higher than 9600 Baud? HELP!)
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Date: 2 May 90 21:33:03 GMT
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In article <892@tau.sm.luth.se> d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes:
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>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.

Just do what I do, keep bugging the authors until they fix it. (Right,
Marco? :-) Not adapting to PAL screens where appropriate is a bug.
Actually, I belive software should adapt to whatever resolution the
user has selected as default for his system, regardless if this is a
640*200 NTSC screen or something like the 704*568 I often use.

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