Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!pfm!nadia!dialog!root
From: root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Curious PAL problem report
Summary: Unfortunately, it really exists ...
Message-ID: <627@dialog.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 07:53:14 GMT
References: <15609@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz)
Organization: Dialog Software Development
Lines: 19

In <15609@gryphon.COM> keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes:
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>[...]
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>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?

They exist alright. There is a problem with the Kickstart code that
determines whether it is a PAL or a NTSC-Machine. This has been known
for quite some time now, but hasn't been fixed up to now. I suppose
it will be fixed in 1.4, though.

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Christian Motz       uucp: ...!uunet!mcvax!unido!pfm!nadia!dialog!root
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