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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Difference American vs. European Amiga
Message-ID: <5160@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 21 Feb 90 09:46:19 GMT
References: <15465.AA15465@slaka.sirius.se> <381@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>
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In article <381@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>, phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes:
>>In article <15465.AA15465@slaka.sirius.se> micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson) writes:
>>>What are the differences between an american and a european Amiga?
>>>If I buy an Amiga in the US, what changes do I have to make to get
>>>it to work in Europe? The power supply, ok.
> 
>      Also, I am told, some software from the US refuses to work on european
> amigas and visa-versa. What do these packages detect?
> 

The only software from US which doesn't "work" here is rthe software written by
lazy narrow minded shits who open every screen with a height of 200 scan lines.
It is exceptionally easy to check for PAL/NTSC type of machine, or even, as is
becoming more common, to open a screen the same size as workbench. If noone
objects, I will post example code on how to do this sort of stuff. I must say
it is quite irritating not to be able to use the bottom quarter of the screen.

Regards Alan
> Stuart Millington.
> phupp@poppy.