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From: alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Difference American vs. European Amiga
Message-ID: <495@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 03:46:29 GMT
References: <15465.AA15465@slaka.sirius.se> <381@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich)
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In article <381@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) 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?

Intercomputing (you sometimes see their ads in AmigaWorld) sells European
Amigas modified for the US.  The differences are that those Amigas can display
both PAL and NTSC, and a jumper on the power supply needs to be moved to
be compatible with 60 Hz 120 VAC.  Maybe a swap of a chip or two also, but
the changes that are needed are quite minimal.
 
And before anybody asks, the FCC has granted Intercomputing
approval to sell European Amigas in the US.

No, I am not associated with them at all.

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