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From: Ivo Wubbels <wubbels@worldaccess.nl>
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Subject: Re: Pal 256 lines, why not!
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:55:15 +0100
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James Shaughnessy wrote:
> 
> Luca Cappellini wrote:
> > I've discovered that even if i define my drawing and display screen as
> > SetVideoMode(MODE_PAL);
> > GsInitGraph(512,256,4,0,0);
> > GsDefDispBuff(0,0,0,256);
> > my screen have a max Y value as NTSC (240) why !!!!
> > Please help
> 
> Yes indeed I got the same problem.  I posted the same question a few
> weeks ago but got no real answers.  If you look at the the SIOCONS
> screen you can see using the brick pattern that it indeed uses all 256,
> fitting nicely on my monitor with no borders, but PAL/240 there are
> those black borders that we have come accustomed to.  It's annoying
> because my game Gravitation uses a split screen and I'd like all the
> lines I can get (play it and you'll agree 8 more lines each would be
> nice.)
> 
> Does anyone actually know how to get full 256 line PAL mode??
> 
> (I think possibly there's a booboo in the Yaroze libs; if so, can we
> have a fix please Sony?)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
> --
> -----------------------------------------
> James Shaughnessy    james@manc.u-net.com
> http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj
> -----------------------------------------

Well, it is even more strange if you try to set the videomode to NTSC,
expecting to get 240 lines --> NOT. If you set 320x240 mode, videomode
switched to NTSC, you will get less than 240 lines, so there might be a
bug in a) the libps or b) in the documentation. I would like to know the
answer too.

Greets,
Ivo