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Re: NTSC vs. PAL screen checking (Was Re: JRComm....)

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From: Richard Frost
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 17:55
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	I would like to add my views on this subject. I have written an
Amiga USENET NewsViewer (should be on c.b.a & c.s.a soon) along with a 
friend that, on start up, looks at the workbech screen dimensions and opens 
its window of the same size. The code to do this was VERY simple and I cannot 
see why programmers with NTSC amigas STILL (over 5 years after the Amiga's
release) INSIST ON HARD-WIRING THEIR WINDOW DIMENSIONS TO 200 VERTICAL LINES!
I find so many programs that do this and its REALLY ANNOYING to have a nice
PAL overscanned screen with all this space and a puny 200 pixel high 
window that refuses to be re-sized beyond 200 lines!

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			  IN THE NAME OF
			 
			  PAL AMIGA USERS 
				& 
		OVERSCANNED WORKBENCH USERS EVERYWHERE

	PLEASE STOP THIS PRACTICE, PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
  
					           please?
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From: rfrost@spam.ua.oz.au (Richard Frost)
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Subject: Re: NTSC vs. PAL screen checking (Was Re: JRComm....)
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