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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Difference American vs. European Amiga
Message-ID: <1475@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 90 18:48:54 GMT
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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.

That should be about it. Make sure you change the power supply on the
monitor also. And any other peripherals you will be using, printers, modems.


>     Also, I am told, some software from the US refuses to work on european
>amigas and visa-versa. What do these packages detect?

Not so. The only real difference besides the voltage is the TV standard over
in Europe. Here we have NTSC, they have PAL. PAL has a few more rows of
graphics then the NTSC version does. So some Europeon software may extend
below the bottom of your NTSC screen and be chopped off.

NTSC software on a Europeon machine just looks a bit scrunched horizontally.

But with the new Agnus chip, switching between NTSC and PAL is just a jumper
away. Or maybe even in the software? Didn't Dave Haynie say something about
switching PAL/NTSC in software when the new chipset and 1.4 comes out?

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