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From: mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: palboot, please.
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Date: 30 Apr 91 23:59:12 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.173045.11500@cs.cornell.edu> johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) writes:
>In article <1991Apr30.111525.1965@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> u3369429@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Michael Bednarek) writes:
>
>Ooops.  All PAL booting programs require the ECS Agnus which your
>A1000 does not and cannot use (different chip carrier and support
>circuitry) unless you have a third-party upgrade board like the
>Rejuvenator.  It is my understanding that in order for your stock A1000
>to display PAL, you need the PAL-specific (DIP or thin) Agnus.

The copy of Tobias Trek that I received (it's a PAL game) included a
program to run the game in interlace mode. It doesn't fill the entire
screen that way, and of course it's in interlace, but you can play it.
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