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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Amiga games
Message-ID: <1721@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 15:15:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1721
Posted: Wed Sep 30 15:15:36 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 01:47:03 EDT
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Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
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Summary: Negativum perspireum
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In article <1889@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes:
>
>Sigh.  It's an excellent game, for as long as it works.  Even with only
>one player, it is quite playable.  But this (presumed) overscan damage
>has got to go.  I'm not sure whether I might hurt my monitor permanently
>with this abuse.  Can anyone advise me on this last topic in particular?
>
It is impossible to get anything other than NTSC out of the US Agnus chip
unless you do extraordinary hacking in the copperlists etc. Hence I bet you
are simply seeing a screen setup for garden variety vertical overscan. If the
game uses sprites that might explain why it does not use horizontal overscan.
(If it is a European game you may be getting the overscan as the American
chip and SW settings valiantly try to cope. But you are quite unlikely to
be seeing 50Hz sweep rates.)

>	Thanks.
>-- 
>	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp
>
>   "Docking complete...       Docking complete...       Docking complete..."
De nada


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