Just so we are clear, a PAL Amiga 500/1000/2000 can not generate a 60hz true NTSC game environment because the entire chipset is a different speed (7.14mhz vs 7.09mhz). If it is written for the DMA bus frequency it will not work as smoothly due to the colour clock being different. It all relates to the genlock native abilities of all Amigas.
There are no 7.14Mhz Amigas. NTSC Amigas run at 7.15909 Mhz. So I will call Shenanigans on the whole above comment. :roflmao:
So few NTSC only A500 games exist most people on forums go for PAL machines with US power bricks etc to guarantee compatibility.
100% Bogus. No wait, 10000% bogus.
The statement violates the causality principle.
Anything happening today cannot ever affect anything in the past.
99% of all A500s ever sold were sold before any internet forums existed. A1200/4000/CD32 has a truer NTSC mode via AGA
What? If you believe the first statement then this statement makes no sense. If you do NOT believe the first statement then this statement no sense.
but I have run hundreds of PAL games, and an app (ProTracker, LOL) on my NTSC Amiga 500.... In fact, on 3 different 500's.
Me too. We all have. I have certainly done over 1000.
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One thing you will find that's pretty nice about the Atari ST series (in comparison to Amiga's) is that they do a pretty good job of switching between NTSC and PAL modes for most games. And there are 60to50Hz apps to force PAL games to run correctly on NTSC machines.
[/COLOR]100% Bogus.
On the Amiga any game that wants to open a PAL screen can just do it.
Any game that wants to open a NTSC screen can just do it.
For example I live in USA and ALL of my Amigas are NTSC Amigas.
Yet all the games I have written for Amiga are PAL games. No need to run any PALboot util. AmigaOS lets me open any screen I dam well please and I please to open a PAL screen. You don't have a choice in the matter. If you play one of my games you play in PAL no matter if you have a PAL or NTSC Amiga.
