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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: <5368@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 27 Feb 90 13:07:16 GMT
References: <15465.AA15465@slaka.sirius.se> <381@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> <5160@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <1990Feb21.115439.6769@NCoast.ORG> <5202@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <2472@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <2472@castle.ed.ac.uk>, aiajms@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bellerophon) writes:
>>> 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.
> 
> Well first of all might I say, sit on your NTSC and twist sideways. The
> answer is obvious, ditch NTSC and go for PAL like normal people in the
> World and especially us Europeans. All you yanks out there write to your
> senator, congressman, ABC, NBC, Oprah Winfrey, Donahue, Roseanne, Bill
> Cosby, President Bush, tweetie pie and sylvester, bugs bunny, JR Ewing,
> Sylvester Stallone, the purple heart, ma's apple pie, Ollie North,
> Manuel Noriega (your ex-Drugs Enforcement Official), ex-President "look no
> hands but watch the string " Reagan, Macdonalds, Wall Street and that
> last bastion of Americanism - the CIA (Criminally Inept Americans).
> Besides we are the 1st world you're only the second and when we
> eventually get EC integration we'll be much bigger than you.
> 
>>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
>>
> OH YES!, I nearly forgot, Australians. The people who gave us "Home And
> Away", "Neighbours", "Richie Benout (Cricket Commentator), "Sons And
> Daughters", "The Flying Doctors" and "A Country Practice". Well just
> remember you used to be part of our empire and I think, judging by the
> crap you view on your television, moving to a  256 line  PAL wouldnt make any
> difference to viewing even if they still broadcasted using NTSC. So
> standardise to PAL or we'll just have to send a task force down to 
> correct your wrongs.
> 
> 
> Yours Flamingly
> 
> -=Andy=-
Oh dear Andy, Andy, Andy. You don't think we WATCH that stuff, do you. I bet
you even think we drink XXXX and Fosters. No No No. We wouldn't touch it. We
EXPORT crap TV and shithouse beer to third world countries that just love to
lap it all up. 
ps. We just sent the next Oxfam parcel. Hope the delay didn't cause too much
suffering.
Regards Alan. All further replies by email please, I'm just warming up!