From: matt (galaga_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 2004-08-05 07:26:19
|There can be two problems:
|1. the contacts of the AR are dirty. Remove the cover, and rub the
contacts
|with a pencil eraser (with the more abrasive side) until they are bright
and
|shiny again. This helped a lot for me, before this treatment my AR would
|work fine on any C64/128, but not on an SX!
ok iv done that and now it works, but not the fast loader evey disk I load
crashes
and if i hold down the C= and switch on that locks up as well??
any ideas???
ps iv add the 8701? c64 clock chip out of a pal unit. But I have not change
the 60hz
clock to the 6522? is this the problem??
thanks matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Welte" <no_spam@x1541.de>
To: <cbm-hackers@cling.gu.se>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: sx-64 pal ntsc??
> matt wrote:
> > ok iv just got one from a new zealand (my home land) and am testing it.
> >
> > 1 it's ntsc the sound is faster than i am use to. 50hz here!
>
> As others have said already, the sound routines of many games usually run
in
> the vertical blanking interrupt (VBI), which is 60 Hz on NTSC machines.
> Nothing you can do about it, except rewrite the game code or convert your
> NTSC to be a true PAL machine (both options are very hard). I enjoy my
NTSC
> SX machine as it is, and I like to run the intro of Skate or Die on it!
The
> music *really* rocks on this machine, very unlike the slower sound on PAL
> machines. EA made a bad job in converting this NTSC game to PAL, they
slowed
> down the music!
>
> > 2 my Action Replay mk VI dosent work.. :( are the keys differnt on the
> > sx64??
>
> There can be two problems: 1. the contacts of the AR are dirty. Remove the
> cover, and rub the contacts with a pencil eraser (with the more abrasive
> side) until they are bright and shiny again. This helped a lot for me,
before
> this treatment my AR would work fine on any C64/128, but not on an SX! 2.
The
> fastloader of the AR is PAL/NTSC specific. If your AR is PAL only, go to
> ar.c64.org and grab an AR or RR ROM that works on NTSC and burn it to
EPROM.
> Or buy a Retro Replay ;)
>
> Nicolas
> --
> -> My Commodore hardware projects and the X1541 Shop at http://x1541.de <-
>
>
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