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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
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Subject: Re: Will the Commodore 1902A RGBI monitor work with an A1000?
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Date: 8 May 91 02:43:25 GMT
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In article <1991May3.233725.2747@csusac.csus.edu> maltasr@athena.ecs.csus.edu (Robert Maltas) writes:
>I'm wondering-----do RGBI monitors work with the Amiga? Do I need a
>specially wired cable to hook these monitors to my Amigas?
>
>Will I get all 4096 colors?

Unfortunately, no.  TTL RGBI monitors give you one bit for each of red,
green, and blue for a total of 8 hues and one bit of intensity for a total
of 15 different colors (intensity has no effect on black--twice nothing is
still nothing.)

I believe the Amiga 23-pin video port can be wired for RGBI, but I'd rather
run the monitor with the painful, eye-torturing, composite video than RGBI.
Well, perhaps text might come out better on your converted 1702 in RGBI
than composite.

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