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WTB: Amiga 600
« on: October 30, 2008, 09:33:48 AM »
I'm looking for an NTSC Amiga 600 in good shape with power supply and mouse.  
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2008, 12:39:44 PM »
I will have a near mint boxed PAL A600 up for auction tonight, starting at $0.01 with no reserve. While it is PAL, I am here in the USA and it will include a US 110V power supply. It is also capable of displaying NTSC, which cab be selected in the early boot menu or in WB.
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2008, 02:07:27 PM »
But you will NOT get color out of the composite port in NTSC-land, just black and white.  The only way to get color out of this system is with a PAL friendly monitor or by using RGB.

Switching to "NTSC mode" doesn't help, nor would using an A520 modulator.
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2008, 02:35:15 PM »
How much are you looking to pay?  I have one that I might think about selling at the right price that's put away right now.  It is not stock.  If I recall correctly it has 3.1 rom, internal harddrive, extra ram.  There also might have been one of those squirrel connectors for hooking up an external CD-rom drive (but that could be included or not depending on what someone wanted to pay.  I think it also has original manuals and software.

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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2008, 02:38:29 PM »
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But you will NOT get color out of the composite port in NTSC-land, just black and white.  The only way to get color out of this system is with a PAL friendly monitor or by using RGB.

Switching to "NTSC mode" doesn't help, nor would using an A520 modulator.


Who doesn't use RGB? Composite output is horrible. I tested the A600 last night with a NTSC 1902 and PAL looked fine, just a little flicker. Switching to NTSC looks just like an NTSC system :-D

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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2008, 02:43:00 PM »
I'm sure there are people out there who'd like to be able to hook a 600 up to a big TV, as it really is geared towards the gaming end.
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2008, 02:46:14 PM »
I used to have a stock NTSC A600 hooked to my gameroom TV and used it soley as a gaming system. Worked great that way. Wouldn't dream of using *that* A600 as my main Amiga computer hooked to RGB however. Not with the scarcity of NTSC/PAL capable 1084's especially. Others mileage may vary though!  
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2008, 03:32:40 PM »
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But you will NOT get color out of the composite port in NTSC-land, just black and white.  The only way to get color out of this system is with a PAL friendly monitor or by using RGB.

Switching to "NTSC mode" doesn't help, nor would using an A520 modulator.


This doesn't sound true at all.  Especially that part about an A520 not working?  How the hell would an A520 know what fricken RGB port it's hooked upto?  
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2008, 03:38:51 PM »
@AmigaHeretic:

A520 adapters are also PAL and NTSC specific, so it matters.
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2008, 03:53:22 PM »
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But you will NOT get color out of the composite port in NTSC-land, just black and white.  The only way to get color out of this system is with a PAL friendly monitor or by using RGB.

Switching to "NTSC mode" doesn't help, nor would using an A520 modulator.


This doesn't sound true at all.  Especially that part about an A520 not working?  How the hell would an A520 know what fricken RGB port it's hooked upto?  


Beats me, but I've got a PAL 600 here that proves it, and my PAL 500 agrees.  Got any PAL hardware you can test to prove anything different?
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2008, 04:37:50 PM »
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Beats me, but I've got a PAL 600 here that proves it, and my PAL 500 agrees.  Got any PAL hardware you can test to prove anything different?


PAL A520 :-?
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2008, 05:00:14 PM »
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PAL A520 :-?


I imagine that'd work great.... on a PAL monitor.  Though I don't have one of those to mess with.
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2008, 06:42:36 PM »
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Beats me, but I've got a PAL 600 here that proves it, and my PAL 500 agrees.  Got any PAL hardware you can test to prove anything different?


Nope. Just never heard of it. Especially in the video game world (people using old PCEngines etc in the US, I've never heard of people having b/w screens, just the normal 50hz/60hz issue)

I suppose I can understand the circuitry built into for the composite connector being different I guess, but don't know why a standard A520 getting the signals from R G and B off the RGB port wouldn't work, but who knows. Very strange.

I wonder if my genlock would work, that gives great composite out.  

A600 hooked to a TV would be sweet.  I think a PAL one would be a PLUS as I wouldn't have to always try switch it to PAL to play most games/demos.

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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2008, 07:34:58 PM »
If the PCEngines came from Japan (thought they were pretty popular there,) that could explain those working, Japan also uses NTSC.
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Re: WTB: Amiga 600
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2008, 08:35:31 PM »
If it is of any use identity wise, here in the UK (PAL) my 520 has the following info on the sticker on the back.

Model 520

Serial No. MT2 1019094
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Funkentstort nach    (Maybe a fellow user can translate)
DBP Vfg 1046/1984

Made in Taiwan

P/N 354028-02    40A069-002
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