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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in decision for PAL or NTSC
Message-ID: <1994@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 88 14:40:11 GMT
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> But what is the 'line frequency' pin from the power supply good for ??
> Doesn't the Amiga check that line to decide if it should display PAL (50Hz)
> or NTSC (60Hz) ?

I hope not. This would prevent PAL Amigas from being used in North America,
and NTSC Amigas from being used in Europe. One of the common complaints from
Europeans is that some (many?) programs developed in North America don't
look right on PAL systems, but at least a few vendors have PAL Amigas to
test with, and it has to help the situation a bit.

-larry

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