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In article <895@tau.sm.luth.se> d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes:
>bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) writes:
>
>>Just do what I do, keep bugging the authors until they fix it. (Right,
>>Marco? :-) Not adapting to PAL screens where appropriate is a bug.
>>Actually, I belive software should adapt to whatever resolution the
>>user has selected as default for his system, regardless if this is a
>>640*200 NTSC screen or something like the 704*568 I often use.
>
>There is one small(?) problem here, which Dave Mc Mahan pointed out to me,
>namely that there aren't really any PAL machines in the US to test the programs
>on. To write the code is easy. To debug it is difficult.

Well, that shouldn't be a problem since the SFA allows you to switch
between PAL and NTSC on any machine. And if you are developing
commercial software that does anything related to keyboard, screen etc
you should get yourself a European beta-tester. It's painful to see
products that really seems to be useful fail because they didn't think
about the differences in resolutions, keymaps and handling of national
characters.

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