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In article <15609@gryphon.COM>, keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes:
> 
> Just received a curious letter from someone in Europe reporting a
> PAL problem I've never heard of before.  Was wondering if anyone
> knows if it really is a problem, or if this guy just ought to take
> his machine to the shop.
> 
> Here's an excerpt from the letter:
> 
> "... One time out of ten, the PAL AMIGA system does not switch to PAL
> mode during the boot-procedure.  [...]

     Well, that happens once in 25-30 boots, it's a bug in the OS and we
will have to live with him until 1.4 comes out. BTW, this was discussed here
in c.s.a.t a while back.

>  [...] I believe that there is an easy answer to my problem:
> 
> Write a tiny program which is included into the startup-sequence and
> which checks if the PAL mode is properly turned on at boot-time.  If
> that check fails, the routine shall automatically reboot the system, so
> that we get an endless loop until PAL mode is available."
> 

     That is exactly what I do. After getting bored of waiting for a
long boot just to discover that I was left with a NTSC screen, I've wrote a
tiny little program that does what you describe. So, for a long while now, my
first command in the startup-sequence is 'reset'.

> He goes on to propose to pay for us to develop such a program.  While

     Well, that won't be necessary. I've uuencoded my reset program and I'm
sending it at the bottom of this article. It's so little, that I guess nobody
will mind.
     Just give your friend my greetings.

> I suppose it would be easy enough, I am surprised to hear that such
> problems exist.  Or do they?
>
> Is this a known problem with PAL Amiga's, or is this guy's Amiga just
> out of whack?

     As I said, it's a bug in the OS.

> Keith Doyle
> keithd@gryphon.COM    gryphon!keithd     gryphon!keithd@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov

     And here it comes....


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