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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: PAL vs NTSC Megachip
« on: August 10, 2017, 06:54:28 PM »
Quote from: madgrizzle;829385
Well, anyway, we'll find out since I already bought the thing

Maybe I missed the point of this thread, but assuming you have a monitor or display device that supports both NTSC and PAL, what's the issue?  (assuming you're not using a genlock or something, as someone stated above).  For Workbench and productivity software it won't matter, just select whatever screenmode you want, and for games you can select either PAL or NTSC with WHDLoad/Degrader/etc.  I don't think anyone's too likely to notice that 1% speed difference mentioned above.

Or is the question will a NTSC motherboard + NTSC VA2000/CX work with a PAL Megachip?  Guess, like you said, we'll find out!  ;)



##SMDH, I can't believe we're still having issues with NTSC vs. PAL in 2017, lol. :laughing:
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: PAL vs NTSC Megachip
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2017, 08:19:31 PM »
Quote from: madgrizzle;829391
Hadn't heard of SMDH before.. when I googled it I got "Seriously Degraded Modem Hours"... which I thought was funny considering the era of the computers (I googled again and got the real definition)

:roflmao:
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: PAL vs NTSC Megachip
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2017, 07:16:41 PM »
Quote from: madgrizzle;829874
I was able to run Cannonfodder, which requires 2 MB of chip ram.

Always a good test.  I seem to recall buying a Megachip years ago for my A500 for just the same reason.  :lol:
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: PAL vs NTSC Megachip
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2018, 11:33:53 AM »
Quote from: midway;835980
Cannonfodder ? That ran on my 1MB Chip mem A2000 in the 90s ?


With WHDLoad it needs 1.5MB, AFAIR.
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