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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: PAL on A2000
« on: February 23, 2016, 04:48:37 PM »
I suppose it might work if you stuck a PAL Agnus in there? No jumper, it's a little more complicated on an A2k. Personally thanks to WHDLoad, an Indivision, and a good monitor, I haven't cared about or had to switch between PAL & NTSC in years. Don't know what all the fuss is about anymore.

Although back in the '90s it annoyed me that I had a PAL A1200. Was always having to switch it to NTSC every boot, lol. ;)
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: PAL on A2000
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2016, 06:21:27 PM »
Quote from: tonyvdb;804485
NTSC is my normal configuration however there is a handful of games that load from workbench that need PAL. I guess I will just live with it as its not a huge deal.

Have you tried searching for a WHDLoad installer for them?   Then you can just set the PAL tooltype and fuggedaboutit.  ;)
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: PAL on A2000
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2016, 10:22:44 PM »
Quote from: amiman99;804503
I'm going to say that Motherboards v4.3 and up should have the 102 jumper and the FAT AGNUS that supports 1MB Chip RAM.
The jumper is next to the Agnus chip and probably needs to be cut.

AFAIK 4.x boards only came with the 8370 or 8371 (fixed) Agnus.  It wasn't until the 8372A that they became software-switchable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_Agnus

In any case, back to OP's original question, no.  Not just a simple jumper.  Use Degrader or WHDLoad to make it easy on yourself, unless you want to make it be PAL 100% of the time.  ;)
« Last Edit: February 24, 2016, 02:01:40 AM by Oldsmobile_Mike »
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