BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) (06/14/90)
I would like to install a switch in my A500 to switch between NTSC and PAL video modes. I like to put my computer into PAL mode occasionally to run European demos, view PAL-sized IFF pictures, or anything else that would require the increased resolution of the PAL video mode. I have tried the various programs written to put your computer into PAL video mode, with varying results. The program 'PAL', which immediately throws your computer into PAL mode, works, but it needs to be run from AmigaDOS, and yhus doesn't do much good for games and demos that have their own autobood sectors. The program 'PALBoot', which installs a romtag to throw the computer into PAL mode upon the next reboot, does not work at all, perhaps because I have the 1.3 ROM. So, could anyone enlighten me as to the procedure for installing a PAL/NTSC hardware switch? I need to know, in particular, the names and locations of the traces and/or jumper pads on the motherboard of the A500 that would be involved in such a switch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | BITNET: BARRETT%FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU@ISUVAX | MARC N. BARRETT | | Internet: BARRETT@FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU | Undergraduate Student | | SnailMail : 2923 Oakland St. | Ames, Iowa 50010 | Computer Engineering | | TelCo : (515) 292-7270 | Iowa State University | | Fido : Marc Barrett (1:285/614.0) |-----------------------| |--------------------------------------------------| THIS SPACE FOR RENT | | LAST BOOK READ : |-----------------------| | In Search of Schrodinger's Cat : Quantum Physics and Reality | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | BEEFS : | | Short Signatures, Whitewashed O.S.'s, Shells without Menus | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------