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From: Eric Hyland <a007193t@bc.seflin.org>
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Reply-To: Eric Hyland <a007193t@bc.seflin.org>
Subject: Re: Amos vs Blitz
To: Garfield Benjamin <gbenjam@sosbbs.com>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Garfield Benjamin wrote:
>
> > If Blitz is so OS compatible why do PAL games like Zombies, and
> > Screech etc totally fuck up the screen graphics when you run them in
> > NTSC.
>
> Most of these games aren't written in AMIGA-mode (the OS-compatible
> side) but, are using the Display libraries in BLITZ mode.
I don't program in Blitz, so I can only judge it by the games I've seen,
but I think that I may have seen one RPG that could have run in NTSC, but
it popped up a requestor saying something like the screen not the right
size, and then quit.
> You will have problems with any PAL-only games regardless of the
> language. I have seen MANY AMOS, BLITZ as well as Assembler
> games/demos which either have garbled NTSC-displays, important
> data displayed off the visible screen, lock-ups due to the slightly
> faster NTSC video-synch, etc. This was a common problem with
> commercial (most in Assembler I assume) games a few years back.
> I don't know how many times I had garbled screens or lock-ups.
I have not seen any such problems in PAL Amos games, and if programers
would just let users adjust the SCREEN DISPLAY command their would be
no problems at all.
> The solution I came up with is simple: Simply Boot your Amiga in
> PAL-mode then run the game/demo and it will work fine. Even now,
> I simply expect most games will require PAL-mode and don't even
> attempt to use them in NTSC.
Thats not an option for a real gamer I play on my 35" SVHS TV.
Don't you monitor guys worry about hemorrhoids ?
> This is a real problem though and I hope more authors will cater to
> both PAL and NTSC users. It's very simple to add this kind of support
> and it makes it SO much easier on the end-user...
>[SNIP]
> (Mr. Giark?).
>
>
> Take care,
> GARFIELD
>
I agree it's a real problem.
Eric Hyland
a007193t@bc.seflin.org