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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PAL: no. of lines?
Message-ID: <564@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 90 08:30:33 GMT
References: <1470@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1470@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> db@lfcs.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).

Well, you never can use the full screen height. Some of these lines
are dedicated for checking purposes, don't know whether also sync is 
counted with them. So, 625 is the absolute maximum and far more than
what is visible.
BTW also NTSC has more than the Amiga 400 lines, I think NTSC is
about 525 lines (or similar).

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