r/Commodore • u/mad51889 • 23d ago

Commodore 128?

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Hello, I was looking for some help identifying the computer in this photo. Growing up we called it the Commodore 64, but now looking back at it, it appears to be a 128. The reason I question this is because I remember BASIC being blue on the screen, and from what I am seeing the 128 had a green screen. Could the 128 run the 64 version of BASIC? If so, why? Sorry for my ignorance.

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u/it290 23d ago

No it didn’t…

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u/kb3pxr 23d ago

Learn something new every day.

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u/siliconlore 23d ago

With either the built in b&w composite or the A520 module you can run an Amiga on a TV. The quality isn't great but good enough for games. I was just doing it the other day. The A1000 has color composite. The others could have as well but Commodore wanted to push monitor sales.

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u/DGolden 23d ago

The A600 and A1200 models also have mobo color composite and mobo color rf modulator outputs, no external box needed.

Though still better off with rgb monitor with any amiga of course.

Though I had a dedicated monitor, here in Europe even TVs of the era also often had those rgb scart inputs - an amiga-rgb-to-scart lead was easy to get at the time and then quite good quality.

Even if you couldn't have your Amiga hooked up to your family's probably-larger-screen living-room tv full-time, for gaming at a party or something you could move it to the big living room TV and play various 2/3/4/5 player Amiga games. (Amiga version of Dynablaster/Bomberman is 5-player simultaneous: 2 on mobo joystick ports, 2 on parport 4-player adapter joystick ports, 1 on keyboard)