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From: rda233b@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (m.l. 8933859 leighton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PAL: no. of lines?
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.040854.4903@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 6 Nov 90 04:08:54 GMT
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Organization: Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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db@cs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry) writes:

>I recall someone saying that PAL amigas output 512 line screens.
>Is this right?  PAL TVs have 625 lines, so I would have expected
>that number from a PAL Amiga (with 312 lines in non-interlaced modes).

A standard, non-interlaced, non-overscan PAL screen is 256 lines long.
Overscan increases this to 312, and interlace doubles everything.
(Meaning that the _are_ 624 lines to an overscan, interlaced screen.)
Please feel free to correct me...

> Dave Berry, LFCS, Edinburgh Uni.      db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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