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From: bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben M Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: reboot a PAL machine into NTSC
Summary: PAL on US machines!  Wow!
Keywords: PAL NTSC Amiga resolution cool beans maynerd
Message-ID: <3313@pikes.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 90 10:10:31 GMT
References: <9002181052.AA03247@virgo.tau.ac.il> <1990Feb20.013713.12554@agate.berkeley.edu> <82.25e0fe73@intersil.uucp> <1990Feb21.054255.20904@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben M Scott)
Organization: University of Colorado, Denver
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I just wanted to publicly thank you for this; (and the original author, of
course!) it's a great service to the Amiga community.  It is wonderful to have
higher resolution for FREE (every test I can run says that system speed is 
the same, and there is no serious extra DMA overhead), but I can't figure out
how it works on the 1084 without twiddling knobs!  It actually seems to be 
scanning at a different speed, because I have a VCR hooked up through the 
composite and I often switch between screens, and in PAL mode there is a 
much bigger glitch than when switching NTSC to NTSC.  How can the 1084 scan
PAL with a 60 hz power supply?  Kramden SI reports the VBI as 50 hz, AND
the Power supply frequency as 50 hz too.  Another interesting note:  ECSTest
reports the Agnus is still in NTSC mode.  Of course, this was the same program
that spelled it "NTCS", so what do you want to believe?  
 
Another question:  How  did you fit a Frances into a 500?  I thought the Lucas
required extreme enough measures... and is it really as buggy as I hear?  I'm
so far able to live with the 3 megs my 590 gives me, but more is always better!
 
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