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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's in a name (and who is "Fang")? (long)
Message-ID: <2421@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 02:53:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 02:53:29 1987
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References: <14218@amdahl.amdahl.com> <2336@cbmvax.UUCP> <14580@amdahl.amdahl.com> <277@uscacsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <277@uscacsc.UUCP> papa@pollux.UUCP (Marco Papa) writes:
> The following are excerpts from the "Commodore Amiga A500/A2000 Techical 
> Reference Manual", a 240-page manual that also includes ALL schematics of the
> A500, A2000 (the German design) and the B2000 (the WestChester design).
> All the references pertain to differences betwenn the various Amiga computers
> (now 4: A1000, A500, A2000, B2000). My comments are within [..].
> 
> "The A500 and B2000 provide a full-bandwidth 16-level grey-scale composite
> video output."
                                               ^^
This was an editorial screw up.  The composite monochrome output reflects the
normal 4096 colors, however the 60/30/10 RGB->Monochrome weighting reults
in some of the shades of grey being a little hard to distinguish, resulting
in a number of less than 4096 but considerably more than 16.  On the other
hand just about any arbitrary color screen makes sense in monochrome, which
isn't always the case if you don't do the color weighting.

-- 
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