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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! Changed Agnus - my Amiga is dead(?)
Message-ID: <19494@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 4 Mar 91 23:07:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.145542.22922@mack.uit.no> <10000022@hpmwmat.HP.COM>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <10000022@hpmwmat.HP.COM> mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell) writes:

>	Pin 41 was cut off???  From Agnus?  I don't know what this pin
>	is for for sure, but I have never seen an Agnus missing a 'pin'.

As I recall, pin 41 on the ECS Agnus (8372A) is the NTSC/PAL pin.  I don't 
know why anyone would cut this off, though I guess if it were cut off and
internally bonded to +5V, it would give you a PAL system with the need to
cut J202 on the A2000 motherboard.  Or perhaps that's for support of A500s,
which may not all have the equivalent jumper.  Even if it were floating, 
that might cause the system to be randomly initialized to PAL or NTSC based
on the phase of the moon, but would more likely tend toward one or the other
anyway.  It should not prevent the operation of the machine.

>	-Mike-


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