A1200 rev.2B motherboard: resistor in ALICE pin
 

I noticed this this today:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/restqp/363.jpg

it caused some slight trouble when installing the DCE flickermagic... I have another 2B motherboard here, but it lacks this resistor... does this mean that the pictured motherboard with the resistor has the famous "timing fixes" :confused:confused:confused

that resistor is hack for ntsc motherboards to make boot default in pal mode instead ntsc

that hack doesn't produce timing issues

what? really? so I have an NTSC mobo?
bah
will it affect me in any way?

it's better for any amiga boot in pal mode by default

anyways Im not sure about that hack is 100% bug-free

it can cause some problems with scandoublers or with your particular DCE flickermagic...

bye

OK, did some tests...

removed the resistor and booted. Scout gave me a PAL Agnus.
changed screenmode to NTSC, and again Scout gave me a PAL Agnus ...
using ClassicWB ADVSP btw...
so??? if it was an NTSC motherboard, removing the resistor should give me an Agnus NTSC, right?

I don't remember if the resistor alone is the hack or another modification attend....I think that a pin of the alice chip is disconnected from the motherbpard as well to complete that hack

that hack was invented by some resellers to sell 1200' ntsc motherboards on PAL countries

btw, check what kind of video you got from composite video output



bye

hmmmm
I checked the early startup menu too, PAL is pre-selected...
will try the VHS out in a while...

just checked, it displays on my tv and flickers the same as my cd32/pal ...

Ok....

which problem exactly you have with that motherboard with the resistor?
strong flicker?

not really a problem, as I wrote before in caused trouble when installing the DCE flickermagic... I removed it now completelly, seems OK
will try connecting VHS to a tv-tuner and see what it gets recognised for (I have a SAA7135 based one that supports ALL formats)

nice, I just checked with trusty FLY2000TV... 24.49 FPS VHS input...
I still wonder why the resistor was there in the first place... maybe I need to let it do intensive gfx stuff? an AGA demo perhaps?

some information here http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/am..._mobo_fix.html

hope this helps