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From: c315-25@cs.UAlberta.CA (Huisman Kenneth M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Why?
Keywords: PAL, NTSC, Resolution, Graphics
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.063042.8619@cs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 4 Mar 91 06:30:42 GMT
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Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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I'm not sure if I should be posting this here or in .hardware, but anyways..

This is probably a question that has been asked many times by many different
people, but I would really like to know why PAL amigas have more scanlines
than NTSC amigas.  Why didn't they make them the same?  From a software
designer's point of view, wouldn't it have been easier to have the resolutions
be the same?  It is kind of a pain when you are playing games like 
Tobias's Startrek and you have to play in interlace mode with a scrunched up
screen.  Could someone please explain this to me?


Thanks.

Ken

c315-25@manning.cs.ualberta.ca