20 June 2013, 20:59 | #121 |
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Why does Amiga Amiga 500 has monochrome video via RCA ?
Is it because the signal was already on the motherboard somewhere ? |
21 June 2013, 02:38 | #122 |
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I would assume the B&W composite was a cost cutting excercise on both the a500 and a2000 since the A1000 had colour.
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As you may recall, the parallel port was re gendered on the Amiga 1000 and had to use a special cable for printers (gendered changed); it was never meant to compete with the PC parallel port as was the serial port. I believe RoyBates is correct as to using it for its full 8-bit data path for more than printing.
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exists somewhere near that area so they decided to let it out to play for reasons known only to them |
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21 June 2013, 12:44 | #125 |
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Why when os 3.1 is installing on the hard drive, many important files like Installer are not copied to it?
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21 June 2013, 12:47 | #126 | |
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Creating b&w video out is simple. Color composite requires extra components (coils, crystal, caps, delay line, etc..) and also PAL/NTSC need different components/values. |
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21 June 2013, 12:54 | #127 |
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I really didn't expect anyone to know the answer to that
one , thanks Toni Now where's me screwdriver EDIT : Yes , now it makes perfect sense , it would be actually cheap and useful solution if you will use software that only requires monochrome monitor ... Last edited by blizz1220; 21 June 2013 at 13:10. |
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I've always felt (and used) the composite (BW) output was designed for diagnostic work as a quick picture on any old monitor.
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Last edited by demolition; 21 June 2013 at 21:32. Reason: prowler was making me a liar, so I removed the link correction :) |
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Do any amiga's support the middle button, or wheel, or were they added on mice long after Amiga's were created? Which leads on to my next question (which I don't believe has been asked yet). When referring to more than one mouse (the electrical kind) do you say mouses or mice? |
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only in Apps and Workbench.Few games work with it. Mices |
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Since there are two POT pins on each port, it can also support the middle button, however it wasn't standard and you need special software make it work. I've never seen anyone using PC serial mice on an Amiga, how does that work? On the serial port? Because it definately won't work on the mouse port except using some active adapter, and that would be silly since serial mice are so horrible to begin with. An Amiga deserves a mouse with at least 50 Hz reporting rate. |
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And this (attached) You can use them both at the same time no problem I never found one that was optical or had a wheel And if it can't play Cannon Fodder blah |
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Would you believe that mouse is an acronym for Manually Operated User Selection Encoder? It's a truth fact according to Doug Engelbart-Simpson. This weak attempt at humor brought to you by the colour black, the number i and the fact that I only slept for 2 hours yesterday |
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Both ports are equal. If you connect a mouse to it, the bit is for the left mouse button. If you connect a joystick to it, the bit is for the (first or only) fire button. They use the same lines on the cable. The right mouse button is not connected to the CIA. Quote:
I think AWeb uses the middle mouse button to open the context menu for links. |
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