leirbag28 wrote:
@ChaosLord
Dude! I just realised...........Your in Texas!!! so your an American?[/quote]
Of course I am an American! Viva Bush! Long live the Repbulic! E. Pluribus Unum! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Give me liberty or give me death! :-)
Why on earth thn did you make Total Chaos in PAL instead of NTSC?
Because PAL has higher resolution so the board can be bigger without scrolling.
(Please dont say its because PAL has higher resolution...
OOPS too late! :lol:
it doesnt, just more lines without scrolling)
If it has more lines then it has more resolution.
NTSC = 640x400
PAL = 640x512
Therefore PAL is
HIGHER Resolutiuon than NTSC. I wrote all about this stuff in the Amiga WIKI because some people have real confusion on this issue.
Both PAL and NTSC pump out the same amount of data per second, perhaps that is what is confusing you.
The other reasons I wrote the game in PAL are:
1. ALL Amigas built since 1988 support PAL and NTSC without any modification. The Enhanced Agnus is a very nice chip in this regard.
2. All Amigas built in 1988 and before all support PAL IF they have been upgraded with the new fat agnus.
3. Most of the best demos and games require PAL anyway.
4. My A3000 is permanently in PAL mode. The A3000 has this really kewl jumper on the motherboard that is dead ez to install a switch on. This lets you easily switch from PAL to NTSC. I installed the switch, set it to PAL and then NEVER changed it back. There was no reason to.
5. Most Amigas are in PAL countries anyway.
NTSC would have been faster and more Fun for us Americans.......as we would be able to play it on Large TV screens and show it off to Friends :-D
GOOD TVs support PAL and NTSC no prob. Its just those dam ripoff japanese tvs e.g. Sony et. al. that don't support it. :madashell:
Can you somehow make this game run in NTSC?
uhmmm... grumble brumble... hmmm...
all one has to do if you need more lines is make the screen scroll down to where you need to see.
Well uhmm.. I could add a secret option that does that just 4 u.... but the game would suck to hafta constantly scroll it around all the time. I know because I used to have a secret noninterlaced mode where the game ran in 640x256 and scrolled around at 50 fps. I hated it.
I think I was able to load it once in NTSC by using the program NTSC4NTSC and typing: "NTSC4NTSC FORCENTSC"
I think I got it on Aminet. the problem is.it wont let me scroll down to make any selection.
Ok I guess I can make a secret -NTSC switch 4 u.
It will force NTSC mode and activate AUTOSCROLL. That should be easy.
But don't you have a 1084S monitor?
They are 100% PAL/NTSC compatible.
By the way....the game never worked for me..either in PAL or NTSC because I think it is missing some files that got lost or corrupt durring decompression.........I used DiskMaster2....maybe I should Try WizARC?
Diskmaster said something like: Skipping extraneous data, and basically just didnt decompress that or threw it out..who knows.
There are a gazillion bugged out versions of LHA v2.x
So if you want to decompress a large archive with 50,000 files you need to use lha v1.x (Stefan Rules!) Many people use v1.21 or so.
Put the archive on your HD (lets say u put it on WORK:) Goto shell and type:
cd WORK:
lha x TotalChaosAGA.lha
And it
will work. It works for hordes of other wizards.
When you get it working I would be very interested to learn what is the very first spell that a newb casts? Thanx!
