brostenen wrote:
Yup.... TV's was what we used back then for gaming in our childhood bedrooms. Well... Those that had an Amiga.
And it will be what gives the original experience, as if it was "gaming like it was 1989 again". :-p
Ah yes, I still remember our old B/W TV with RF connector. It was of orange colour and made by Teleton or a similar company, I believe.
Back then, RF was the "normal" way of connecting home computers and consoles (up to the MegaDrive, SNES and N64 even).
Sure there was CVBS (Composite) and mono audio - often transported over a pair of red/white or red/black RCA cables,
but these were rather used by video game enthusiasts than kids of the day since RCA/Cinch plugs were often only
found on "modern" looking 90s TV sets (big+black, plastic look) or European TVs with EU SCART (that ugly connector always carried CVBS, too).
(Okay, I was among of the exceptions here, since my father gave me his old Commodore 1702 that I used as my NES monitor,)
Speaking of such "real" TVs with only an aerial connector, I recall they also were the reason for the awesome orange/blue colour scheme of Kick 1.x.
It gave good contrast even on cheap television sets. Even though Amiga's heyday was a bit before my time,
I still prefer that look over that of Kickstart 2.x. Btw, the only reason I use Kick 2.x and higher is the the auto-config
feature for virtual HDDs in emulators. With Workbench 1.3, of course, but that's another story. 😉
spiroyster wrote: Of course UK used PAL instead of NTSC which always complicated matters.
Ahem. China also used PAL and found ways to create PAL circuitry (even cheaply and with little parts). 😉
Seriously, though - You're right, but ut wasn't PAL's fault that US and Japan were very important in video business and foolishly used 60Hz and NTSC..
From a pure technical point of view, PAL wasn't bad at all. It had higher resolutions, safer colours and was closer to 24fps cinema format, too.
It was just a little bit slower, since the mains power in UK and EU were 50Hz and creators wanted TVs to be in sync with the flickering of light bulbs.
As a side note, the IBM MDA monitors also used 50Hz by default, so NTSC's 60Hz timing wasn't always #1 in computer industry.
Albeit with afterglow tubes (P5?) and 720x350 pels. Anyway, these a just some random thoughts of mine to this matter. No offense. 😁
Edit: Edited, Some typos fixed.
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