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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: <5202@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 22 Feb 90 13:51:39 GMT
References: <15465.AA15465@slaka.sirius.se> <381@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> <5160@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <1990Feb21.115439.6769@NCoast.ORG>
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In article <1990Feb21.115439.6769@NCoast.ORG>, davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
> 	It's not OUR fault you can't use the bottom of the screen. And I
> would hardly call the opening of a screen to only 200 lines lazy. You have
> to consider, that at least for custom bit-mapped displays, there is NO WAY
> to make the screen any bigger than the artwork you want to put on it. If
> I opened a screen any larger, and just left it as useless space, what
> good would it do you? And in your own words, it's just annoying. It's
> a lot better than what the "lazy, narrow-minded" programmers do from
> EUROPE. They assume you have a PAL machine, and there software USES the
> bottom of the display. There is no way to use any of the programs on a
> NTSC machine, period. That's a lot worse than just "annoying". And what's a
> lot worse than that, european programmers seem to have some strange love for
> logo's. And waste the top half of the screen, which is usable by both NTSC
> and PAL with the name of the program, (usually game), and put the important
> info, status displays, etc. on the very bottom of the display, where only
> PAL machines can see them.
> 	Take the beam out of your own eye man, before you start telling
> us about the dust speck in our eyes...
>  

This is great!! I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that :-) You see, had you
checked my address, you might have noticed I'm AUSTRALIAN. Australian
programmers always check for machine type and open a screen of the rigt size!

Regards Alan

> 					Dave