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Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s by mvexel on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:55AM (#27345325)
The YT link to the Computer Chronicles interview with Tim Jenison and Paul Montgomery of NewTek is dead. Here is an alternate one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWHjfIKD6zA

Enjoyed watching this. I remember seeing a Video Toaster in live action for the first time and it completely blew me away. It really drove home the power of the combination of PAL (or NTSC) video output with the 2^24 color HAM color mode.

Re:How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s by mvexel on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:38PM (#27346425)
No, I looked it up and I got this wrong:

* HAM6 (the original "OCS" HAM, A1000/500/600) supported 4096 colors

* HAM8 (AGA, A1200 / A4000) supported 2^24 colors / around 2^18 simultaneous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify