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

Subject: Re: [stella] playfield on-the-fly updates
From: <kurt.woloch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 11:43:24 +0200
On Thu May 14 18:37:35 1998, Eckhard Stolberg wrote:

>>Yes, I am sticking with a 1:1 ratio for each of the two playfields - that
>>is, they display on alternate TV frames, giving 30Hz on NTSC, and 25Hz on
>>PAL.
>
>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.

That arises a question for me - is there any way for the program to find
out whether it's running in a PAL, NTSC or SECAM environment?

With love, and many scanlines to do...
Kurt Woloch

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