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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NTSC-PAL
Message-ID: <23@faatcrl.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 90 18:41:56 GMT
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bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes:

>Workbench follows suit opening a PAL screen if you boot in PAL rather than
>just changing during runtime.  This also brings other programs like CED,
>Diskmaster, and JRComm along so you really can use the 25% extra screen
>real estate (with virtually no additional system overhead).  I'm sure other
>programs also detect PAL, those are just the ones which do that I use mostly.

Glad you brought this up.  I've had a few people harp on me for JR-Comm not
working properly with PAL on an NTSC system.  Until yesterday I was not aware
of the fact that there are some mode switching programs that change modes 
without rebooting the system. 

Since JR-Comm depends on the size of the Workbench screen for determining
maximum width and height as well as interlace, just switching to PAL mode
without booting causes the program to not open correctly.  Just looking at
the PAL flag in the system isn't sufficient either since the Workbench screen
can be morerowed to a non-standard size.

From what I was told, simply using the size of the Workbench screen was fine
for KS/WB 1.3.  I'm aware that this all changes for 2.0.

But, the question here is if just changing modes is "right".  On the A3000
that I just got (had to throw that in ;-), when I change to PAL mode the system
tells me to close all tasks that are currently running or else it will not
change over to a PAL screen.

From this I draw the conclusion that the only "right" way to change to a PAL
screen (and also in the opposite direction), the system must be rebooted in
order for the Workbench screen to open correctly.

Am I correct on this, or am I all wet?

  -jack-