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From: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr (Michel Buffa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Amiga Game Machine
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Date: 14 Sep 90 06:56:50 GMT
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In article <7383@milton.u.washington.edu>, jimsa@milton.u.washington.edu (Jim
Sather) writes:
> 
> I was considering buying an amiga for a game machine, but never having
> used an amiga, I don't know what machine to get.  Can a 500 play all
> existing games?

A standard amiga 500 can play 99% of the games. An amiga 500 with one meg of
memory can play 100% of the games. (including Dunjeon masters and most of the
Cinemaware games which requieres generally 1 meg of RAM)

  How many bit's deep is the graphics on a 500, does it
> have 4096 on screen colors?

YES ! But not many games use this resolution (4096 colors are used generally
during the presentation page, but not during the game itself). Games are
genereally in 32 or 64 colors, even more if they use special effects like
changing the palette at every scan line (Shadow of the beast, and many others
do that)

  I remember reading that an amiga will
> output NTSC for use with television and thus I could save the monitor
> cost.  Is this true?  Does the 500 do this? 

Yes, but you'd better buy a monitor for a better image.

  As you can see I am totally
> in the dark so any suggestions on which configurations are best and
> cheapest for gaming would be much appreciated.

A 500, with 1 meg (exp A501), 2 external drives, a good joystick.
If you play only arcade games, you don't need 2 drives and 1 meg.

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