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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Color composite on A500, and other questions.
Keywords: A500 monitor diskettes
Message-ID: <105356@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 18:39:14 GMT
References: <413@aucis.UUCP>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <413@aucis.UUCP> (Andrew Gillham) writes:
> I would just like to ask if anybody knows of a *easy* (not expensive) 
> way to get composite color out of an A500?  I realize that I can buy a 
> RGB to composite convert for $50, but would rather not.

		[Cost, Difficulty, Quality]

Pick any two. Working with video is straight forward but not "easy" per
se. You have two options on the build your own front, one is to get 
the "Cheap Video Cookbook" which had some innovative ways for making 
composite color in it, or you can get a Motorola 1377 (or something like
that) RGB -> Composite converter. There is one in the Amiga 1000. At 
one time Mot had a little application board that you could build, check
with their sales office. Can you do it for less than $50 ? Maybe, depends
on how much you want to hack up your Amiga. 

> I just managed to scrape together enough money for the A500 and would 
> like to run it in color on my tv.. Any suggestions?  Thanks..

I can appreciate this. Can you stand it in monochrome for a month or
two while you figure out a way to come up with $50 ? I'd guess it would
be easier to mow 10 lawns for $5 apiece than it would to build this
thing on your own, but then again I don't know your situation.

>Question 2:
>Is there a public domain program that can read/write IBM 720k diskettes?
>I need to transfer some files, etc..(plus the nifty stuff from the usenet!).

Get the PCCopy stuff off your "Extras" disk, and something called PCPatch
off the binaries archives. 


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