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- From: Jason <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: NTSC vs PAL questions...
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 21:32:36 GMT
- Organization: Cosine Systems
- Message-ID: <9604102132.AA001ce@cosine.demon.co.uk>
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- Fredrik (dat91fje@ludat.lth.se) wrote:
-
- : Perhaps it could be that the American ones used 60 Hz AC instead of
- : 50 Hz, which is the standard in Europe. Tunes in games also seemed
- : to be playing a bit faster on the American versions.
-
- That is 'cos US machines get 10 more frames in per second so the music player
- (which is called once a frame) gets 10 more plays a second as well.
-
- : Could it be possible that the NTSC-machines were working slightly
- : faster?
-
- Yes. They have 60 frames per second but less raster lines per frame to
- counter this.
-
- Jason =-)
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