Reply 60 of 61, by Shagittarius
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appiah4 wrote on 2024-04-19, 14:02:Shagittarius wrote on 2024-04-19, 13:57:appiah4 wrote on 2024-04-19, 07:30:A1000 has color composite out.
I did not know this. I did a little research and it seems not all 1000s have color composite, there is a lot of discussion about this. However I did find something else I didn't know which is the 600 and 1200 had color composite out.
If you had an Amiga monitor though there was no reason to run composite video, anything you would have seen would have been rgb out on those from an amiga.
It kind of mattered if you did not own a monitor though, color composite was still lightyears better than color RF.. That said, for an A500 you needed the A520 regardless, which also has color composite out. It was a strange design decision for the A500/2000 that I will never understand. I suppose it was probably done to allow using monochrome monitors at high resolutions. I mean, the A500 has particularly sharp Composite output even though it is B&W. I would think it would look very crisp and sharp in 640x400 interlaced mode on such a monitor, so you could do coding or word processing with it. The issue is, neither the A500 nor the A2000 were marketed as such machines...
Absolutely I wasn't saying that no one used the composite that didn't have a monitor, just that for the topic of this thread discussing monitors, if you saw an amiga with an era appropriate commodore monitor it wasn't running through the composite.
Further about the A520 it might also depend if your A1000 had the appropriate Agnus to do EHB mode, otherwise you would get B&W also through that device, which seems really weird to me but I just saw a discussion on that as well, though I don't have the ability to verify any of it.
