Re: [stella] PAL/NTSC issues

Subject: Re: [stella] PAL/NTSC issues
From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 15 May 1998 kurt.woloch@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> number of people who would buy a 2600 cartridge today, Way 2) would mean
> that there'd have to be two seperate cartridge production runs, for PAL

Use a switch and an 8K EPROM if need be.

I'm speaking about situations where a game needs every last byte.  4K
games usually do.

> the question would be if there's a way for the software to tell whether
> it runs on PAL or NTSC without requiring the user to tell it to the
> program.

I think the Jaguar somehow manages to do that.  I don't know how it would
be done on the 2600, though.  If it were possible it would have been done
by now.



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