Re: [stella] playfield on-the-fly updates

Subject: Re: [stella] playfield on-the-fly updates
From: "Andrew Davie" <adavie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 20:59:13 +1000
>PAL is only 50Hz, if you use it's full resolution of 312 scanlines.
>If you do only 262 scanlines it's 60 Hz on both TV systems. Well,
>more or less. PAL seems to be doing 120 scanlines per second less
>than NTSC, but that's hardly noticable.



The above has been bothering me for a few days.  It was my understanding
that many many many PAL TVs could not synch with 60Hz.  Especially older
ones.  Surely it would be wrong wrong wrong to write a PAL game which used
50Hz?

A



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