Editing Amiga 500 (section)

=== Graphics ===
* [[PAL]] mode: 768×580 maximum ([[overscan]] [[Interlaced video|interlaced]] if viewed on [[composite monitor]]/TV).<ref>{{Cite web |date=1990 |title=NewTek DigiView Gold Advert |url=http://amiga.resource.cx/adcoll/adcoll.pl?id=digiviewgold&pg=9 |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=Amiga Hardware Database |archive-date=January 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128095808/http://amiga.resource.cx/adcoll/adcoll.pl?id=digiviewgold&pg=9 |url-status=live }}</ref> Typical resolutions: 320×256, 640×256 or 640×512 (all displayed with borders).<ref name="amiga.lychesis.net">{{Cite web |title=Amiga Graphics Archive – Amiga Graphics Archive |url=http://amiga.lychesis.net/knowledge/ScreenModes.html |access-date=September 24, 2016 |archive-date=September 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927032905/http://amiga.lychesis.net/knowledge/ScreenModes.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 
* [[NTSC]] mode: 768×484 maximum (overscan interlaced if viewed on composite monitor/TV).<ref>{{Cite web |date=1989 |title=NewTek DigiView Gold advert |url=http://amiga.resource.cx/adcoll/adcoll.pl?id=digiviewgold&pg=5 |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=Amiga Hardware Database |archive-date=January 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128091703/http://amiga.resource.cx/adcoll/adcoll.pl?id=digiviewgold&pg=5 |url-status=live }}</ref> Typical resolutions: 320×200, 640×200 or 640×400 (all displayed with borders).<ref name="amiga.lychesis.net" /> 
* Graphics can be of arbitrary dimensions, resolution and colour depth, even on the same screen. The Amiga can show multiple resolution modes at the same time, splitting the screen vertically.
* [[Planar (computer graphics)|Planar]] graphics are used, with up to five bitplanes (four in hires); this allowed 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 colour screens, from a palette of 4096 colours. 
* Two special graphics modes are also included: 
** [[Amiga Halfbrite mode|Extra Half Brite]] (EHB), which uses a sixth bitplane as a mask that halved the brightness of any colour seen
** [[Hold-And-Modify]] (HAM), which allows all 4096 colours on screen at once. HAM makes it possible to use {{nowrap|12 bpp}} over a {{nowrap|3 [[pixel]]}} wide span. This works by letting each pixel position use the previous RGB value and modify one of the red, green or blue values to a new 4-bit value. This will cause some negligible colour artifacts however.