NTSC4NTSC 2.2 ============= Are you anoyed by programs which open their own screens but use screen modes which you don't like? If you have an PAL Amiga but use a NTSC workbench a lot of screens still open in PAL (50 Hz) mode. If you are lucky to use the new AA chipset the problem gets even worse. Nearly no screen will respect your choice for non interlaced (dbl) display and you get interlaced displays (25/30 Hz). NTSC4NTSC solves all these problems and does even more... This nice litte program forces screens which are smaller than maximal NTSC overscan to use 60Hz NTSC screenmode even on PAL Amigas. PAL sized screens still open in 50Hz even on NTSC Amigas. So you always get the correct refresh rate. If you use the AA chipset you can "promote" interlace screens in order to avoid flickering. Additionally it can turn all screens to full blown new 2.0 look. NTSC4NTSC 2.2 has nine commandline switches: STDPAL, STDNTSC, USEAUTO, FORCENTSC, NEWLOOK, PROMOTE, FULLPALETTE, BORDERBLANK and GFXBASE. STDPAL and STDNTSC are mutually exclusive. They determine which screen mode should be used for screens which request "standard" height. If you don't specify one of them you will get a requester which asks for the preferred screen mode for such screens. USEAUTO converts screens which are too high for NTSC into autoscroll screens NTSC screens instead of PAL. If a program insists on getting a PAL screen it will get one if you don't use FORCENTSC. If you use FORCENTSC all screens will be converted to NTSC. This option automatically sets STDNTSC and USEAUTO. NEWLOOK enables the 2.0 new look for all screnns by setting the SA_PENS tag. PROMOTE converts all screenmodes to their "dbl" equivalents. It works only if you have OS 3.0. FULLPALETTE is useful in combination with NEWLOOK. It will ensure that all colors of the screen will be initialized with the user's preferred colors. In brief: STDPAL use PAL for standard height screens STDNTSC use NTSC for standard height screens USEAUTO use NTSC/AUTOSCROLL instead of PAL FORCENTSC override scrennmode, always use NTSC NEWLOOK get NEWLOOK screens PROMOTE use mode promotion FULLPALETTE initialize all colors BORDERBLANK blanks the border around the screen GFXBASE patches the base of graphics.library NTSC4NTSC can be aborted with CTRL-C! But be careful: Patches never can be removed without risk. I suggest to add this line to S:User-Startup: Run >NIL: