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- From: Jason <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: NTSC vs PAL questions...
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 96 17:20:24 GMT
- Organization: Cosine Systems
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- Nate Dannenberg (tron@wichita.fn.net) wrote:
-
- : Wanna bet? Without changing out the crystal you are keeping your pal=20
- : machine set partly to PAL.. Spefically, the clock speed is some 980 KHz=20
- : in pal, and 1022 KHz in NTSC.
-
- : This will result in some demos that use really strict timing, may not work
- : at all on the "converted" machine. One I can think of right now is one I
- : saw that puts graphics on a blanked screen, using 5 or 6 card wide by two
- : raster tall "pixels" to draw the display. This program's results would be
- : DIRECTLY affected by the clock frequency, which in turn controls the
- : display. I can't say it won't work, but it will prolly look like shit on
- : an improperly converted machine (this is an NTSC demo).=20
-
- Well, thats just a simple raster effect and so far my crossbreed has never
- failed to run them correctly. Tell me where I can find this one and I'll
- give it a go and tell you the results. If its not on an FTP site, Email
- it to me as UUxT. About 3 months ago I yanked about 20 disks worth of NTSC
- demos from utopia.hacktic.nl and every one worked fine. Also the TRC/SCS
- PAL/NTSC intro by Mr.Sex/(B) works fine and that uses sideborders which are
- one of the most nasty things to time and also directly related to the clock
- frequency.
-
- Jason =-)
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