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From: jac423@leah.albany.edu (Julius Andrew Cisek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: StarTrek3 NTSC patch
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Date: 26 Nov 90 21:36:17 GMT
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In article <218@coplex.UUCP> dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) writes:
>parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James Parker) writes:
>>The patchNTSC is on the Star Trek 3 disk 1 in the C directory.  If you don't
>>have it on yours, try getting the warped copy from abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov in
>>the /incoming/amiga/GAMES/StarTrek3 directory.  You could also try 
>>/incoming/amiga TobiasTrek(??) but I'm not sure the patch is there, as I
>>didn't download it.

It's also available in the Fred Fish libraries.  Err....  Aquarium is at home.  Sorry :)

>A better solution, I have found, is to use the program "PalBOOT" from the
>comp.sources.amiga archive (v90i113).  It is accompanied with the similar
>NTSCBoot as well.
>
>Using PalBOOT (which boots the Amiga 500/2000 etc) into Pal mode works
>PERFECTLY with TobiasTrek.  You get a full screen display (not the scrunched
>interlace stuff with patchNTSC).  Try it out, it works great.
>
>I have tried other Pal-modem switching programs, but PalBOOT is the only
>one I have found that works with almost everything.

This unfortunately  only works with  those machines that  have the new
Agnus chip.   For  those  of  us  with  the original   500/2000 series
computers (who haven't bothered to upgrade), this does not work.
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