Hello!
Hooligan_DCS is right! All Terrain Racer (ATR) is a superb game! I had
the CD32 version but it didn't load on Amiga for some reason. I then
acquired the Christmas Demo on some floppy and you raced around this
snowy track with your little cars. It was like Skidmarks but with
futuristic SUVs and with smoother graphics.
Leirbag28 is right, NTSC is the way to go for the avid gamer...
I remember back in 1998 when the Sega Saturn was ready to go belly up
the Offical Saturn Magazine started a campaign to get everyone
converting their machine to 60Hz so it could run import games.
After that 99% of Sega Dreamcast games had the option built into their
startups to allow 50Hz/60Hz PAL.
Nowadays ALL my games no matter what machine are in 60Hz modes which
gives full speed and full refresh. It's not necessary to have NTSC for
Europeans, the PAL format allows 60Hz modes too.
The nutty thing is, when NTSC games are converted to PAL they are
given a speed boost in their code (because PAL is slower due to the
higher resolution). So when you switch a PAL optimised game back down
to NTSC or 60Hz PAL you go at warp speed.
UK PAL Wipout on Saturn is a good example. Man that was cool in 60Hz
with the NiGHTS 3D Pad.
As for PAL games on NTSC systems that might be trikier, but WHDLoad
might be your saviour, that or the early startup (in combination with
a change of monitor settings).
I suppose that was going to be a downer of the Amiga's video
capability. PC screenmodes (although very unversatile with regards to
your video display) are like a universal language since they MUST be
run on a VGA display. I wouldn't like to know how complex a PC's
video-out option is...
:-D
