Subject: Re: [stella] Pal & NTSC switch From: Chris Wilkson <ecwilkso@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:55:26 -0400 |
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 > solitaire0@xxxxxxxxxxx > afterlife.terrashare.com > > > P.S.-Anyone who sent me mails at the leishengwen@xxxxxxxxxxx should know > that I did not recieve them. Seednet, the company that hosts that web based > mail service, had a huge 40+ hour blaze in their Shijr building and a large > percentage of their servers were destroyed. I rebuilt the site to direct to > my personal account and their should no longer be a problem. Sorry for the > trouble. > > > > > > > > >>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? > > > > > > > >- > >Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > >Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > - > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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