Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 500: a nice unit. Way to go! Message-ID: <2075@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 03:30:27 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2075 Posted: Wed Jul 8 03:30:27 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 04:23:46 EDT References: <610@neoucom.UUCP> <1601@cadovax.UUCP> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 33 Keywords: Its about time. In article <1601@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes: > In article <610@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: > >Only one gripe: I whish the power switch were on the computer > >rather than on the cordbrick power pack. Well, it saved a little money - 3-pole DC rated switches are expensive, and you don't turn it on and off very often... Someday, we'll probably roast in hell for that little feature... It does give the ST owners something to sneer at though! 8-) > I'll add a second one. It seems to me that the lack of a color NTSC output > is a mistake. Everyone has a VCR, and seems like a lot of people would > want to record Amiga output. Anyone know if the appropriate 'adapter' > module is available, and how much it costs? Could be. In the original product planning we our thinking was that the composite color wasn't "good enough" for the Amiga - even the C64 and C128 use separate luma and chroma to get better resolution. We saw the the A1000 and A2000 as being the "video" machines for the VCR/home video crowd, rather than the A500. Also there was concern for a low cost, high-definition non- flickering video mode that would make the machine suitable for productivity software/terminal emulation types of tasks. The monochrome output is nice, and with the color-weighted grey-scale can be used with "color" applications without difficulty. Check it out sometime... Anyway, the adapter combines the RGB-Composite circuitry and an RF modulator (separate outputs). It's not available yet, but isn't supposed to be very expensive when it does come out. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)