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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:58:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Hyland <a007193t@bc.seflin.org>
Subject: Re: A few bits 'n' pieces
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Hello: Matt Ward & AmosListers
Matt you wanted to know if their was anything you needed to do to make a
PAL game run in NTSC other then using a ___,200 screen, and Mr. Giark wrote
that you need to adjust the timing. I do not think it is necessary to
adjust the timing in all cases, because some games like Q-Bic & Bloodfest
seam to run just fine in NTSC the only problem with those games is that you
cant see the bottom of the screen. As for the ___,200 screen mode this is
also probably not necessary to as the Amiga is not a stinking PC, and dos
not need ugly black borders. The Amiga has the ability to run in OVERSCAN
screen modes and Amos screen are OVERSCAN screens, so to get your game to
run on a NTSC Amiga why not do what the people who wrote Guardian for the
CD32 did which is to let the NTSC user move the PAL screen to the top of
the PAL OVERSCAN area. To do this use the ( Screen Display number,x,y,
width,height ) command increasing y lowers the screen decreasing y raises
the screen y normally is 40. NTSC OVERSCAN is ___,241 , as a guide this is
from the top of the bridge monitor screen to the bottom of the Star Wheel
in Tobias Trek, Also keep in mined that the monitors are not perfectly
quare they are bent around the edges. The monitor shrunk in to show the
NTSC overscan area will show 5 lines up from the top of the bridge screen,
and 5 lines down from the bottom of the Star Wheel.
Hope this saves you from to much unnecessary conversion.
Eric Hyland
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