For that answer, I think you'll have to wait until someone is able to
conduct the tests that were mentioned recently. I don't know anything
about PAL (I will this summer) so I could be way off base here, but my
gut feeling is that you would have to replicate a lot of circuitry
unless you used custom chips. I think it would be a pain. But I could be
wrong....
-Chris
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Christopher Rydberg wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> My NTSC/PAL question is more one of hardware. That is to say. If one was
> to build an Atari 2600 anew and wanted to build it in such a way that it
> could play either Pal or NTSC games on the screen it's attached to, is there
> a cost-effective way to build a switch for the system?
>
>
> Christopher Rydberg
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>
> >>Hey,
> >>
> >> I remember a classic console that used some sort of hardwired switch
> >>that switched it between Pal and NTSC compatibility. I think it was the
> >>Tele-Spiel, but the memory is foggy at best. Can anyone help on this or
> >>maybe provide a schematic for a super low cost and space conscious
> >>Pal/NTSC switch. Spray me a mail or two if you can help.
> >
> >
> >The cool thing about the 2600 is that it inherently PAL/NTSC
> >compliant. There are no territorial lockouts. So you can have individual
> >games that can switch between PAL and NTSC via the timing of their
> >kernels. Oystron is the only one I know of that does this, unfortunately.
> >
> >BTW, isn't it true that not all 128 colors can be used on PAL 2600s? Don't
> >some of the colors duplicate themselves?
> >
> >
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