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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: PAL A500
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Date: 18 Mar 91 04:11:16 GMT
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I've been playing with the PAL program by Nico Francois and found 
something interesting (actually two things).  No matter what, I cannot
get the vertical resolution of my machine to exceed 236 vertical scan 
lines in non-interlace.  Isn't PAL normally 256 scan lines?  I've used 
morerows -rows 35 and can't get much better than that.  Using CygnusED's
custom screen height, I can't exceed 236 either.  There's still screen 
left over at the bottom, but its "void".  
 
If PAL is 256 lines, and my NTSC 500 running in PAL cannot exceed 236, 
what's the benefit?    The display looks nice, but it really only seems 
to be the same screen compressed into a smaller area.... something I 
could accomplish with the control before.  Am I doing something wrong?
 
Not to mention that, but the clock is completely wrong because the power 
supply is 60Hz and the VBlank is now 50Hz.  Is there any way around 
this, except moving to the UK :-) ?
 
- Dave (Plummerd@max.cc.uregina.ca)



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