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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 2.0 File Requestor/NTSC Questions
Message-ID: <16664@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 08:20:34 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.033055.3516@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <16641@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <16641@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
>is in NTSC).  We know of no bugs that cause a PAL machine to boot
>as NTSC.  Do you have a hardware problem?  I wonder what would happen
>if the NTSC/PAL jumper was loose or missing.  Check the jumper which
>is just adjacent to Agnus.  I don't know the jumper number, but on
>later motherboards, it's labelled "PAL/NTSC".

	That's true under 2.0, but under 1.3 about 1/20th of the time
(I think) a PAL machine boots up in NTSC mode.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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