Amiga 500 PAL/NTSC switch question..

[Zac67]

Not recommended at all! You can fry the Agnus.

That's bull - have been doing this for years with a 500 and a 3000. It's just a TTL input, so why should anything break?
(Hardswitching is the only way to switch a A2024 Hedley monitor from 1024x1024 to 1024x800. ;-))

[Zac67]

Well, a hardware-switched-to-PAL-after-boot NTSC machine doesn't behave any differently than a software-switched-to NTSC-after-boot PAL machine.

(Yes, it does: the wall clock runs fast on the latter A500 - that's why big box machines use the PSU's tick for the CIA timer.)

You can happily throw the switch dozens of times while the machine is running without any problems.