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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 520 video adapter (sales flyer goofs, really)
Message-ID: <8708260954.AA21440@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 05:54:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 05:54:37 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....
> ...so what exactly does this do?

You read the sales flyer and your *still* don't know what it is??  What does
this say about the quality of the sales flyer?!

If I'd believed Commodore sales flyers I'd know that the Amiga can control
"up to 50 overlapping windows"
       ^^
Who needs Jack Trameil (sp?) to spread mis-information when you can just
use Commodore advertising? :-) :-)
In case you don't get it... the Amiga can control as many windows as you
have ram for.  There was a sample program a while back that opened 150
windows at the same time.  One of the principal features of the Amiga is
it's "no limits" design philosphy.
(Sources-> Spring 1987 Commodore-Amiga Buyer's Guide, page 2  and a
 Single sheet A1000 description from an Amiga dealer, about January 1987)


If that A520 costs more than $179, consider the Mimetics ImaGen.  I've seen
the output... it is quite good.  ImaGen gives a RGB pass thru, color
composite video out and _genlock_ input for syncing the Amiga to an external
video source.  It fits all Amigas (A500,A1000,A2000).  ImaGen is missing
audio in jacks... a feature that the Commodore 1300 Genlock does have.


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