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Re: Amiga 1000 mystery         

Group: comp.sys.cbm · Group Profile
Author: Jukka Aho
Date: Feb 2, 2007 01:03

David Murray wrote:
> I know this isn't the Amiga group, but as discussed before, I can't
> find an amiga group with any activity on it...

I'm not sure what you're talking about. There's activity on
"comp.sys.amiga.games", "comp.sys.amiga.hardware",
"comp.sys.amiga.misc", and "comp.sys.amiga.marketplace", at least.

"comp.sys.amiga.hardware" would have been the most appropriate group for
your question (and I suggest reposting it there.)

[Question about the A1000 mystery Kickstart snipped since I don't have
any personal experience on A1000s. Sorry.]
> I actually prefer to use my A1000 for games simply because it has a
> composite video output on it I can use with my TV and have color at
> the same time. My A500 is certainly more "portable" than the 1000
> but without a commodore monitor or extreemly badly designed A520, it
> can't do color.

If you don't have a SCART connector on your TV set, but do have
component (YPbPr) inputs, you could build something like this to convert
the RGB signal to YPbPr signal:

<http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_102648/article.html>

Amigas were often sold with 15 kHz RGB / composite video monitors, such
as the Commodore 1084S or Philips CM8833.

15 kHz RGB / composite / component video monitors are still available
for professional video applications, and for arcade (coin-op) video
games. See these two Google searches:

<http://google.com/search?q=pro+video+monitors+rgb>
<http://google.com/search?q=mame+arcade+monitor>

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