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From: h112706@assari.tut.fi (Herranen Henrik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: NTSC on a PAL Amiga
Keywords: noogie, norge, nanaimo
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.101338.1124@assari.tut.fi>
Date: 9 Oct 90 10:13:38 GMT
References: <9715@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.tech
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In article <9715@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Alan Whinery) writes:
>
>How does an NTSC type program look on a PAL Amiga? I'd like to be able
>to send a collection of PDware to a friend in Finland. Are there 
>complications?

Usually the only problem is that since we in Europe have more pixels on our
screens (ex. 640*256 vs. 640*200) there is a big blank space on the bottom
of the screen. If the program uses only CLI and doesn't start it's own
window/screen, no problems usually occur.
   I speak for myself, but I never use programs which can't adopt to PAL and
leave 20 % of the screen blank. My WorkBench size is now 736*284, which makes
the NTSC problem even worse.
   Also you should notice that the aspect ratio of pictures will become
wrong.

>Alan Whinery
>whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu
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