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Hello everyone,
This is a program I wrote last night to reboot a PAL machine into
NTSC mode. You must have the new Agnus chip, and Kickstart 1.3 .
The program relies on static location of certain Kickstart 1.3
ROM instructions, so it MUST be modified for Kickstart 1.2 . Are there
any users of the new Agnus chip users with Kickstart 1.2??
The program has been tested on a PAL A500 with a super Agnus chip,
a fully populated A590, Kickstart 1.3 ROM, and a Rev 3 motherboard
hacked to contain the super Agnus chip.
The program should work as is on 2000's as well, but I didn't
test it. Again, it will *not* work with Kickstart 1.2 .
The program can be easily modified to reboot an NTSC machine in PAL
mode, but I remember reading that the american monitors can't work
in PAL mode, while the european monitors can work in both modes.
( This was verified by me ;-) ).
I could modify it to be more user-friendly ( find the appropriate
address in the Kickstart ROM at run time, etc. ), but I was too
lazy to do this ;-) ( actually, I had an exam the next morning so I
didn't have too much time improving it ).
Since our Usenet connection has been down for the last 3 weeks, any
comments should be mailed to me directly, and not posted.
Enjoy!