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Saladriel Amrael
Posts 166
25 Jun 2017 12:37
| A quick question that comes to mind reading the threads about AGA/ECS integration in SAGA:
We all know that ECS/OCS Amiga was sold in two versions: NTSC and PAL and AGA Amiga had the possibility to switch between PAL and NTSC within the Boot menu (I do not remember if ECS could too, but that's not important for the question itself).Some games are written with NTSC timings and aspect ration in mind while others are written with PAL in mind (Example: Wings soundtrack runs slower in PAL and faster in NTSC). Now the question: how does SAGA handle this while displaying AGA/ECS/OCS screens?
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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6263
26 Jun 2017 11:51
| Saladriel Amrael wrote:
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Now the question: how does SAGA handle this while displaying AGA/ECS/OCS screens?
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Switching from PAL to NTSC is technically a good idea.
We also discussed this in the team but did not develop this yet.
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Saladriel Amrael
Posts 166
26 Jun 2017 12:43
| Yes, keep in mind that some "badly written" games took their timing from the 60/50Hz output (Wings is an example), while for others Aspect Ratio changes can degrade GFX quality
Thank you for the answer
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Eric Gus
Posts 479
27 Jun 2017 08:34
| Saladriel Amrael wrote:
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Yes, keep in mind that some "badly written" games took their timing from the 60/50Hz output (Wings is an example), while for others Aspect Ratio changes can degrade GFX quality
Thank you for the answer
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Yea just look at Defender of the Crown (an NTSC game) on a PAL display looks squashed.
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Manuel Jesus
Posts 155
27 Jun 2017 15:33
| I am curious. What about products like DCTV or the VIDEO Toaster that process the internal Amiga video.... Is there a way to DISPLAY ECS outout on the DIGITAL-VIDEO and STILL have the ECS video processed and output to such devices that connect to the AMIGA RGB video port / or the A2000 video slot?
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Saladriel Amrael
Posts 166
28 Jun 2017 09:57
| You mean Genlock capability?
I do not know, but being a completely different beast it could be asked in it's own thread
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Running Games and Apps.