PAL or NTSC? Was PAL a 'better' Video Resolution?

[Framiga]

Yep, PAL has an extra 56 lines of pixels on the screen, at a loss of 10Hz from the refresh rate. So some games, if their timing is based on the VSync rather than arbitrary timing or CPU speed should run faster in NTSC. As pointed out though, this is at a cost of 56 lines from vertical resolution, probably where the OP's lives etc. were displayed.

where have you got that number from?

NTSC is 525 lines while PAL is 625

PS- ah, ok in LowRes 320 x 200 NTSC vs 320 x 256 PAL

[Jose]

PAL flicker sucks

[zipper]

Depends on the monitor.

[slaapliedje]

Depends on the monitor.

Agreed, I have a LCD connected through the VGA out on my Indivision AGA, works wonders.  The only 'flicker' I really notice is when on higher resolutions, (namely the interlaced ones) is a weird artifact of the mouse cursor and windows/icons when they're moved.  But that's just in workbench, as opposed to in any games.

That's sweet about the tool types for PAL and NTSC.  My question is, for games that are known not to work in one or the other, why aren't they in the stock setup for them?

slaapliedje