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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 2.0 File Requestor/NTSC Questions
Message-ID: <16673@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 16:36:11 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.033055.3516@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <16641@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Dec19.094324.3621@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Dec19.094324.3621@marlin.jcu.edu.au> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
>In article <16641@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:

>>We know of no bugs that cause a PAL machine to boot
>>as NTSC.

To clarify:  there are no such bugs under 2.0.  From time to time
under 1.2 or 1.3, a PAL machine does boot into NTSC.  Sorry if
I misled anybody.

>All I really want to do is have the program open it's own screen
>which is 200 lines high in NTSC or 256 in PAL. It seems that the
>DisplayFlag method is correct from your reply. Thanks.

Instead of setting NewScreen.Height to 200 or 256, use the special
STDSCREENHEIGHT constant, which will make you open up to 200 or 256,
depending on whether you're NTSC or PAL.  Under 2.0, you will also
get the overscanned height, if the user has adjusted his TextOverscan
rectangle.

>-- 
>Matt Crowd       Amiga Man
>Email Address    glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au

     Peter
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