pal vs ntsc

[SamuraiCrow]

It sounds like you're on an A500.  The advice you've been given will work on an A1200 but I'm not so sure if the features of Degrader will work on an A500 so well.

AmigaToPAL will patch your system so it will open PAL screens on your 1702 monitor.  I doubt it will work on your PC's TV card if it's set to display NTSC video only.  Note also that you need an ECS or AGA chipset Amiga to display PAL mode on an NTSC Amiga.  (Many A500s shipped with the Fat Agnus chip but not the Super Denise chip.)  The only way to find out is to try the respective patch.  (The patch linked above comes with two patches, one for patching an NTSC Amiga to PAL and the other to go the reverse direction.)

[SamuraiCrow]

DamageX wrote:
It's an A2000 with ECS agnus and normal denise. I have kickstart 3.1 and can select pal mode from the boot menu but it doesn't fix the vertical size of the display. So are you guys saying that it would display correctly (on the 1702) if I had ECS denise?

That's right.  A normal Denise chip can't switch scan rates therefore you can't switch it from NTSC to PAL mode unless you get a Super Denise.

[SamuraiCrow]

Hyperspeed wrote:
I remember Fairlight made some `cracktros' with a built in NTSC/PAL switcher (they even did one for Wipeout 3 on Playstation!) - this makes me wonder why there isn't a program to install a boot selector onto the bootblock of floppies. Must be possible!

:-)

It is.