Beiträge von SvOlli im Thema „NTSC or PAL?“

    This is not about the output, but about the timing:

    frames per second: 50 on PAL, 60 on NTSC
    C64 cycles per line: 63 on PAL, 65 on NTSC
    VIC-II total lines: 312 on PAL, 263 on NTSC

    When you're coding effects that are close to the hardware, you can't just switch from one system to the other. E.g. almost all demos for the C64 run on PAL hardware only.

    There is something that I stumbled over today.

    Is the Mega65 an NTSC or a PAL machine, or can it run both?
    I'm not thinking about the video-output, but the differences like frames per second, lines per frame and cpu cycles per line.

    If it can run both, how is decided which mode is active?

    Greetings,
    SvOlli