[comp.sys.amiga] PAL Amigas in the US

cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (01/26/88)

In article <2041@antique.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes:
|>In article <2627@cup.portal.com> Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes:
|>> Can I ask....Why would one want a PAL Amiga in the States????
|>> Just curious.....Is there an Advantage to having one???
|>
|> I can think of one good reason: for testing software that you want
|> to market in Europe.  Actually, considering the piracy rate in
|> parts of Europe, maybe it's not such a good reason.

I thought this one was obvious, because PAL Amigas have 256 line screens
as opposed to 200 line screens. (That's 512 lines in Interlace) All those
folks who keep tweaking their monitors get a few more lines out of morerows
can get lots of rows this way. The drawback is that you can't record this
on an NTSC vcr (you need a PAL one of course) but some people never use
that aspect of the system anyway.

--Chuck McManis
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