Re: Amiga Screen Modes

Matthias Münch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.amiga
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Am 30.07.2019 um 10:13 schrieb Frank Wille:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:20:47 +0200
> Matthias Münch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have a question regarding the screen modes for Amiga native
>> OCS/ECS/AGA. What I read was that start option -A uses DblNTSC and I
>> guess without -A is uses simple NTSC?
> -A enables AGA screen modes, which effectively also enables DblNTSC
> which doesn't exist on OCS.
>
>
>> What about other modes like PAL or  PAL-lace? Is this supported
>> somehow?
> The default screen modes for the console are 640x400 for NTSC and
> 640x512 for PAL. Which means that a PAL or NTSC interlace screen mode
> is selected automatically, unless you have an AGA machine and -A is
> given. In the latter case DblPAL or DblNTSC is selected.
>

Ah I see... but it seems this does not work on my A1200. It always opens 
a NTSC screen after the kernel is loaded. Can I force a PAL screen? I 
start with "netbsd -Sn2"
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