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From: hull@hao.hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NTSC-PAL
Summary: Flicker Fixers come in NTSC or PAL
Keywords: Flicker Fixer NTSC PAL MicroWay
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Date: 26 Jul 90 03:42:32 GMT
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I tried NTSC-PAL with the equivalent of an Amiga 2500/20 and a MicroWay
NTSC Flicker Fixer connected to a Mitsubishi Diamondscan.  It behaved
just as you described for the NEC Multisync and the NTSC Flicker Fixer
on your Amiga 2500/30.  So I got my other cable and took the video direct
from the Amiga to the Diamondscan, and that worked ok.  I had to change the
monitor's size controls to where I could see the edges of the display,
and then, even though it was in sync, I was missing a bunch of stuff at
the bottom.  So I kept increasing the -rows value fed to MoreRows and
checking the result.  I had to use Preferences to push the frame all the
way to the top of the scan space, and even then I couldn't get anything
like 512 lines - only 472, I think.  It was cut off at the bottom just as
though there was a cutoff gate after some fixed length.  So I wonder what
else one has to do once the Flicker Fixer is out of the way, though I know
that one can throw throw the NTSC Flicker Fixer in the trash and send one's
dealer or MicroWay another $575 dollars for a PAL Flicker Fixer - MicroWay
probably likes it if one does that.  Does anyone know if Microway has an
exchange deal, an upgrade, or a mod, or if one can get a Flicker Fixer with
a switch on it to select either NTSC or PAL?
						Howard Hull
						hull@ncar.ucar.edu