Stupid Amiga Tricks

Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Yep always thought is weird they started at A1000 even though it only had 256K... A1000 is the black sheep of the family (and thats saying something given the weird family that is Amiga) The fact its missing several graphics modes is because when they adapted the chipset to work with PAL systems they 'noticed' that that had enough room in the chip to extend its 32 colour mode to 64 colour mode by reusing the 32 colours shifted right once. So every post A1000 Amiga has 'Extra Halfbrite mode' with a 6 bit plane graphics mode but only a 32 entry CLUT. The top 32 colours are simple the palette colours divided by 2. It expansion connection is pin compatible with a A500 but not physically compatible, at least without a hack saw and as somebody else mentioned its parellel and serial ports are the other sex from all other Amiga's and PC. But as a games programmer, the Amiga's were an amazing machine, to this day many PC graphics card blitter are less configurable than the Amiga's... Bye, Deano