Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!becker!censor!comspec!tvcent!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!sics.se!bula!bjornk From: bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: NTSC vs. PAL screen checking (Was Re: JRComm....) Message-ID: <6890@bula.se> Date: 7 May 90 10:21:58 GMT References: <899@tau.sm.luth.se> <1177@tmiuv0.uucp> Sender: rnews@bula.se Reply-To: Bjorn Knutsson Distribution: comp Organization: Bjorn's Amiga, Sweden Lines: 34 In article <899@tau.sm.luth.se> d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes: >rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes: >>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, > >You're right, I don't care either if this type of program doesn't detect my >PAL screen. As I've said before, it's the programs using graphics I care I beg to differ. It is VERY useful to have a terminal window that is larger than 80*25/132*25. I normally use 72 columns in interlace or 36 in noninterlace. This is a BIG win for me and many other I know. >about. Good examples are MandFXP and MandelVroom - run these on a PAL machine >and you'll se what I mean... If there is going to be a new verion of >MandelVroom, I sure hope he gives PAL a thought. (BTW, which *is* the latest >verion? Maybe I missed it!) I agree with that. 640*200 or 640*400 just doesn't look right when your system is using 704*284/704*568 normally. And he shouldn't adapt to PAL. He should adapt to whatever resolution is the default in the system (i.e, check the workbench screen). >-- > Michael Bergman Internet: d88-mbe@sm.luth.se > // Dept. of Comp. Eng. BITNET: d88-mbe%sm.luth.se@kth.se >\X/ U of Lulea, SWEDEN ARPA: d88-mbe%sm.luth.se@ucbvax.berkeley.edu > UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic.se!sm.luth.se!d88-mbe --- Bjorn Knutsson / USENET: bjornk@bula.se or sunic!sics!bula!bjornk Stangholmsbacken 44 / Phone : +46-8-710 7223 S-127 40 SKARHOLMEN / "Oh dear, I think you'll find reality's on the S W E D E N / blink again." -- Marvin The Paranoid Android