Re: V1.4+ScrollRaster + ECS

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From: Joe Smith
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 1989 08:59

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In article <2179@ditsyda.oz> baird@ditsyda.oz (John Baird) writes:
>  What about those of us lucky enough to have PAL Amigas? Does the ECS
>support 320 x 256 and 640 x 512 , or are we stuck with NTSC screen sizes?
>2113 Australia		   baird@ditsydd | so these must be my own.

They say there will be a single Agnus for both NTSC and PAL machines.
The "1-meg Agnus" can be switched from 60Hz 200 lines to 50Hz 256 lines
under software control if you know which registers to change.  (I haven't
seen the actual details yet.)
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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: V1.4+ScrollRaster + ECS
Summary: NTSC and PAL from the same chip
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Date: 9 Sep 89 08:59:39 GMT
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