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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Amiga Game Machine
Message-ID: <401@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 90 07:48:25 GMT
References: <7383@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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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?

Nearly. There are already *some* games on the market that need 1 MB
(available by adding an A501), but I don't know of any *game* that needs
even more. But there are many demos existing that cry for megabytes.

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

Same as any other Amiga. Up to 6 bitplanes; 5 for normal 32-color
screens, 6 for "Extra-Halfbright" or "HAM".

>  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?

If you have a color TV, then you need an extra RF/NTSC modulator.
It's available from Commodore as A520. With this you can connect
either to the antenna or the video input of your TV.
If you can live with black & white,
then you can use the output jack of the A500 directly and
connect to the video input of a b/w TV (this way NOT to the antenna
input!).

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