-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 February 1999 22:37 Subject: Re: SimCoupe
>I think what Simon was saying, was that the Sam's 50Hz refresh would be >speeded up to 60Hz and kept in time with the refresh rate of the monitor >(rather than update the image at 50Hz on a screen refreshing at some other >value. That's what my TV card does at the moment, actually. As well as >munging adjacent horizontal lines, and ignoring every second field it gets, >sigh). Ahhh, got you. Sounds like a reasonable idea. >So a game refreshing at a perfect 50Hz on a Sam, would refresh at a perfect >60Hz on the emulator. Everything would still look smooth, but 20% too fast. >That could be enough to make some games unplayably difficult, and would >surely make music and sound effects sound very strange... especially >sampled sounds! Defender would probably be one such unplayable game! I agree with your '50hz option' idea for those with the nessesary hardware. That would be very nice. Chris.
