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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Color composite on A500, and other questions.
Summary: What colour TV? Be careful!
Keywords: composite color video vs 640 resolution
Message-ID: <11712@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 19 May 89 16:19:29 GMT
References: <413@aucis.UUCP> <105356@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <215@doctor.Tymnet.COM>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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On the subject of Amiga RF;
     The output can sometimes actually be quite surprisingly good. I get
80 columns by 25 lines using an A520 with just a regular TV - an RCA 19
inch. (Two Amigas + only one monitor (1084) = compromises...). Anyway,
you might want to watch out for Zenith televisions. The two that I've
played with won't deal with a video signal from a computer in general,
UNLESS it's an Amiga WITH INTERLACE ON. (Tried a couple of other computers
too - Commodore 64, Sinclair 1000). The screen bounces up and down if your
mode isn't interlaced. SETLACE will handle this for most applications, if
you do have a Zenith, but things like Arkanoid (which won't even THINK 
about letting you run real AnigaDOS, much less utilities like SETLACE)
seem to be doomed to bounce.
     Good luck...
     Oh, almost forgot. 80x25 was readable without too much of a problem,
but 80*50 was not fun at all.
                                                    - R'ykandar.

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