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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 520 video adapter
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 14:51:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 14:51:00 1987
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In article <1844@tekig4.TEK.COM> billh@tekig4.TEK.COM (William Hansen) writes:
| My dealer has these new flyers with new amiga products it shows a
| little gizmo called the 520 video adapter. It has what looks like a RGB port
| on one side and a pair of RCA jacks (why two?) on the other. It is displayed
| in a manner to look like a 500 accessory, but I thought the 500 already had
| composite output, so what exactly does this do?

If I were to make a guess (and I am :-)) I would bet that the little gizmo
is a composite color + composite audio output. You need something like that
to talk to a VCR directly. Add video/audio in and a selector switch and
you've got all the inputs of a GenLock. (Note that the A500's built in 
composite video is a monochrome (greyscale) output for better clarity on 
mono monitors)


--Chuck McManis
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