Conference hydra::amiga_v1

358.0. "Don't ignore European Amigas!" by ECC::JAERVINEN (impersonal name) Fri Feb 27 1987 09:01

    SET FLAME /SIMMER
    
    Why do many of the U.S. software writers ignore the European Amigas
    (PAL version, non-US keyboard?)
    
    While I cannot demand this from those of you who have written software
    for PD (and I repeat once more my appreciation for your work) it
    would certainly be on the top of my wishlist.
    
    But also a lot of commercially available SW for the Amiga seems
    to misbehave with the European versions.
    
    CBM introduced the wonderful keymap feature in V1.2 to support
    non-US keyboards; why not use it? I don't have the documentation
    so I don't know what the impacts are for e.g. reading the function
    keys etc. but a lot of the software around seems to simply
    bypass the keymap.
    
    Another thing often ignored is alos the 256 pixel vertical
    resolution of the PAL Amiga. While not using this will not harm
    the functionality of the software, it would be nice to have 32 lines
    of text e.g. in an editor (or full 256 pixels of graphics).
    
    set flame /off