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From: carlson@betelgeuse (Richard L. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Color composite on A500, and other questions.
Keywords: composite color video vs 640 resolution
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Date: 19 May 89 18:13:27 GMT
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In article <11712@s.ms.uky.edu> phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
>On the subject of Amiga RF; . . .
>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.

It must depend on the particular model.  I've used my 1000 on a ~10 year
old Heath TV (whose guts are made by Zenith).  I've used everything from
60x24 (non-interlaced) text to 80x48 (interlaced) text without problems
(except that distinguishing between ')' and '>' becomes real difficult at
the highest resolutions).  I guess the bottom line is (as always), before
you lay down money for something that's not "standard", try to find a way
to test it out and see if it meets your personal standards...

-- Richard
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