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From: val@netw23.uucp (Oberon Kenobi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Why don't European consider NTSC?
Message-ID: <164@netw23.uucp>
Date: 1 Apr 91 20:55:57 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, CS DEPT.
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     Why is it that the European programmers CAN'T FOLLOW THE RULE?!  Not only
did the Psygnosis "Lemmings" demo install copy-protection on the disk (It did
not copy with diskcopy.  What do you think disk-based copy-protection is?), but
the European programmers ASSUME A PAL AMIGA.  Commodore specifically tells you
to how to check for NTSC or PAL.  I know that some American* games assume NTSC,
but having a blank section of the screen is preferable to not seeing the bottom
of the screen where important information is usually displayed.

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* Anyone flaming me on my use of American to mean the United States of America
had better follow up in some advocacy group.  I can make a very good arguement
for this being valid.
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P.S.: There are other locations besides America where NTSC is used.  Japan for
      instance.

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