European games on my North American Amiga 500 ??!

[mr_a500]

No, if he's got a stock A500, the two mousebutton early boot won't work. This is only on 2.0+ and works only on games that use WB.

Get "Degrader" on Aminet and select "50hz 50hzsystem". I used degrader for tons of PAL games and demos before I upgraded my A500.

http://aminet.net/package.php?package=util/misc/Degrader.lha

Edit: Oh, I forgot that you might have a problem getting the Degrader program on an Amiga disk. I suppose I could mail you a disk if you need it.

[mr_a500]

Yes you need the fatter agnus (8372A)...

Really? I was sure I ran Degrader before my upgrade - only with original Agnus (8370) and the A501. Maybe I was just hallucinating or going partially insane. I'll have to test on my spare A500.

I know for sure that Degrader won't work on the A1000

[mr_a500]

Yes, I just tested both Degrader and BootPAL on an A500 with original Agnus and they don't work. BootPAL even checks and if you have the old Agnus it says 1Mb Agnus is required. (... my memory must have been wiped by the radiation from the 1084 monitor ;-))