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From: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Curious PAL problem report
Message-ID: <15609@gryphon.COM>
Date: 9 May 89 05:54:42 GMT
Reply-To: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Just received a curious letter from someone in Europe reporting a
PAL problem I've never heard of before.  Was wondering if anyone
knows if it really is a problem, or if this guy just ought to take
his machine to the shop.

Here's an excerpt from the letter:

"... One time out of ten, the PAL AMIGA system does not switch to PAL
mode during the boot-procedure.  The result is disastrous as only 3/4 of
the PAL pictures are displayed (He's using the Director in a self-boot
slideshow).  Can you imagine what that means in unattended on-site
presentation systems.  I believe that there is an easy answer to my
problem:

Write a tiny program which is included into the startup-sequence and
which checks if the PAL mode is properly turned on at boot-time.  If
that check fails, the routine shall automatically reboot the system, so
that we get an endless loop until PAL mode is available."

He goes on to propose to pay for us to develop such a program.  While
I suppose it would be easy enough, I am surprised to hear that such
problems exist.  Or do they?

Is this a known problem with PAL Amiga's, or is this guy's Amiga just
out of whack?

And BTW, I never did find out if there's any reason not to keep REPORTMOUSE
turned on on all windows all the time.

Keith Doyle
keithd@gryphon.COM    gryphon!keithd     gryphon!keithd@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov