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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: NTSC vs. PAL screen checking (Was Re: JRComm....)
Message-ID: <1177@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 3 May 90 11:00:56 GMT
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In article <3396@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, consp11@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler) writes:
> In article <892@tau.sm.luth.se>, d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes:
> |>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.

NTSC is not inferior.  Nor is PAL superior.  They're just "different".  But,
I agree.  Software should sense what display is running and accomodate it.
Many commercial programs do.  And some of the shareware/freeware/PD stuff do.
Some don't.  That's life.

Besides, I think this thread got started by a flame on JRComm's lack of PAL
support.  I think Jack answered reasonably by stating that JRComm is a terminal
emulator, and 90% of the terminals out there use 80 or 132 character wide
screens, 24 or 25 lines high.  In those cases, I'm not certain that the
additional screen height in PAL mode would be of much use.  But then again,
I'm in the States.  Must be my North American bias showing again. 8-)

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