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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1569.0. "short question 3" by GUCCI::HERB (AL) Sun Jul 31 1988 14:51

    Can I use my A500 on a color TV and get color on my TV?
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1569.1set 60 character lines from preferencesANT::JANZENTom 296-5421 LMO2/O23Sun Jul 31 1988 21:3641
    You can buy a cheap interface for about 25+ dollars, the C-View.
    It is blurry but I have read it to tape video.  C-View produces
    separate b&w output and color chrominance informaiton.  If you short
    out
    the connecotrs (or mix them a nicer way) the color adds to the
    luminance and makes a color composite signal.  It is low performance.
    The a500 has a
    composite black&white jack you can use.  I havn't tried
    mixing the amiga b&w with the cview chrominance.  
    Your television must have
    a composite input, or you plug either the composite b&w output
    or the C-View color mix into the vcr and watch the vcr with the
    tv.  THe VCR then modulates the signal to channel 3, say.
    It is not a pretty sight.  It is rough and blurry (limited
    by
    bandwidth).  It has some kind of sync problem too, because if you
    move the mouse fast enough, the C-View makes (for an instant)
    multiple mouses of different colors.  mice.
	A genlock for $200 will also get you something. Gee, I can't
    say with %100 certainty that it produces composite or rgb.
    someone else will say.  Anyway, it's still bandwidth limited,
    but can be much nicer and have other capabilities, such as mixing
    exterrnal video (say, The cosby show) with amiga graphics.  I was
    doing this at a cable company this summer with my graphics.
    Color register zero areas are replaced with video.  Other colors
    are not.  This meant that my window opened in BASIC still showed
    a black window bar even though I colored it black, I mean it wasn't
    replaced with video because it was not colored by register 0.
    I'll have to get c or call libraries from basic to make windows
    without borders.
    Anyway.  
    You sound like you want to run your amiga as cheaply as possible.
    Maybe you can run for a while on a tv as above, but you will tire
    your eyes.  Also the colors are a little wrong from the cview.
    A monitor can be had for $300.  Lechmere has them, but you may have
    to
    build a cable, unless memory location has a cable for that monitor,
    which they might, if it's a popular monitor.  PInouts are in the
    introduction to the amiga book that comes with the computer, I think.
    luck
    Tom
1569.2A520AYOV10::ATHOMSONC'mon, git aff! /The Kelty ClippieMon Aug 01 1988 10:3210
    Look out for a A520, for about $40 - $50. I'm sure C= were going
    to produce a NTSC version, its a RF convertor which plugs into the
    monitor socket and produces an RF signal (to plug straight into
    the TV) and a colour composite signal (for your VCR). On a PAL TV
    the resulting picture is legible at 80 chars but I found that adjusting
    the colours to black text on light grey background gave a clearer
    picture for prolonged text use. (I can't say what it would look
    like on a NTSC TV though.)
    
    					Alan T.