Re:What made the NES so interesting?
by Moru on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:51AM
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There was a computer you could switch between 50 and 60 Hz with a button press. This controlled the CPU clock too so you got a faster computer with 60 Hz. But I can't remember what computer it was? Can't have been the Amiga or Atari even though they also could do it, has to have been an older one?
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Are you thinking of the Turbo button on PCs?
I've personally never seen the ability to switch from mains frequency. That's a switch on the back of the PSU that typical goes from 240v or 120v.
The turbo button and mains frequency are 2 totally different things.
No, not the turbo button, it was the 50/60 Hz software switch that made the computer faster. Hm, might just have been that the gfx chip was working less in 50 Hz come to think of it...
Re:What made the NES so interesting?
by smilespray on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:57AM
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I do remember seeing several computers in the 80s having this switch, but they were all modded. They also required you to have a more expensive monitor that could handle the format change (PAL/NTSC and 50/60hz)