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- From: jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Jason Peacock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: QUESTION: A500+ usable in USA?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 07:17:04 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- Nhan Nguyen (st82f@bayou.uh.edu) wrote:
- : If this motherboard is indeed usable in the US with his US A500 power
- : supply and NTSC 1084, then should a bootNTSC program (or something similar)
- : be run every time the computer is booted, and then reboot the machine to run
- : in NTSC? He should be receiving the motherboard soon, and any help would
- : definitely be appreciated before some major equipment damage can happen.
- : Thanks in advance!
-
- I recently got a 500+ motherboard, after two unsuccessful attempts to hack
- a rev5 A500 motherboard for 1meg of Chip RAM.
-
- It works just fine with my power supply and 1084 (no 's', 'd', 'ds', or
- whatever) monitor. I've never heard of a NTSC-only 1084 monitor. All the
- 1084's I've run across are quite capable to handling both NTSC and PAL
- video signals.
-
- There is one caveat. The software that Paxtron sends with the board to
- make your A500+ think its an NTSC Amiga doesn't work 100% of the time.
- DPaintV gets very confused when doing the onion-skin feature as does the
- standard screenmode requestor (It's like the PAL monitor file has been
- loaded twice). Does the KS 2.04 ROM automatically load in a monitor file
- appropriate for the type of computer?
-
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- | Jason Peacock, a poor student | Jason_Peacock@fcircus.sat.tx.us |
- | majoring in Computer Science | jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu |
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