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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

1920.0. "Comic Setter upsets" by CHEFS::SKINNER (Doveyai no Proveyai) Wed Nov 30 1988 10:01

    I bought a opy of Comic Setter on my last trip West, largely because
    it costs about 60pounds here, as opposed to $60 US.  However it doesn't
    want to talk to me.  When I load it it first complains about my
    printer (not a real problem), then says "North America only - goodby",
    or words to that effect.
     I
    have written to them (there's absolutely nothing in the advertising
    or documentation or licence that restricts it), but does anyone
    have an idea what they may be looking at , and how to fix it? It's
    not the keyboard mapping, which is as far as I've got to date. 
    Could it be clock frequency ?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1920.1	NTSC v PAL ???	AYOV28::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Wed Nov 30 1988 10:20`	11
	It's probably the video standard, there does seem to be two versions of Comic Setter as the reviews I've seen in the magazines here certainly show a full screen picture - so there is obviously a PAL version. It does sound a bit brain damaged though, almost as if they are checking to ensure that the system is NTSC and when they find it isn't..... byeeee... Instead of letting it run in 200/400 line mode rather than 256/512 (like Dpaint etc. do) Alan T.
1920.2	PAL <> NTSC ?	ADODEM::MCGHIE	looking for a door...	`Wed Nov 30 1988 10:22`	13
	I take it from your comment about things costing pounds that you hail from England or somewhere else in Europe. I would hazard a guess that the software doesn't support the PAL version of the graphics chips. I gather from reading this notes file and other comments that there are two different sets of Amiga graphics chips, one for NTSC and the other for the PAL standard. This may not in fact be the problem, so anybody else like to confirm or squash this possible answer ? regards Mike
1920.3	not just Comic Setter	MIST::TBAKER	Tom Baker - DECwest CSSE	`Wed Nov 30 1988 20:20`	10
	It seems several companies have started producing seperate versions for Europe and North America. My son bought the Three Stooges while he was in Germany this summer.When he got it home all it would do was play the introduction over and over. We called Cinemaware and they said to send it to them. We had a new North American copy in two days. So if Gold Disk's service is as good as Cinemaware's you shouldn't have any problems. tom
1920.4	Answers not funny	CHEFS::SKINNER	Doveyai no Proveyai	`Tue Dec 13 1988 06:30`	10
	I tried this approach: I called the UK distributor for Gold Disk and spoke to a chap called Swallow who told me that they were having lots of problems with parallel imports like this, so they introduced the separate versions to make life more difficult. No, he wasn't interested in helping me. He also has a different way of changing pounds into dollars - I can get $1.80 for my pounds, he seems to think that if I paid $60 US then paying 60 pounds is much the same thing. The differentiation is based on the video standard, so hopefully the new chip set will remove this temptation.
1920.5		TLE::RMEYERS	Randy Meyers	`Tue Dec 13 1988 18:37`	7
	Re: .4 > The differentiation is based on the video standard, so hopefully > the new chip set will remove this temptation. Nope. I'll bet that the new chip set comes in both a PAL and NTSC version.
1920.6	still waiting	CHEFS::SKINNER	Doveyai no Proveyai	`Sun Mar 19 1989 17:21`	3
	I wrote to Gold Disk around the time I put my last note in, but haven't had the courtesy of a reply yet! Is this typical of their responsiveness ?