[pritovido]

Steve Wozniak himself was cheating. Instead of using proper D/A converters that costed 100 times more, he made a hack.

And the hack was good enough.

It is one of the things in which academical training is perverse. It trains you to always complicate more and more any subject, and that the hard work is the goal, shortcuts are not permitted.

[dmitripopov]

I agree. But, you know, enthusiasts enjoy holywars. And there's a thin hazy line between a "true" and a "cheater".

[glouwbug]

What was the hack? PWM to an RC filter?

[Cyberdog]

I believe it's the one mentioned in the article about how to achieve a color NTSC signal by just outputting ones and zeroes with proper timing.

It begs the question what was done in parts of the world that didn't use NTSC, though.

[fsckboy]

the other video standards (Europe used PAL) aren't much different in principle than NTSC, just some different timing and encoding parameters, the same D to A techniques work. PAL is higher bandwidth (and higher quality) than NTSC and Woz's timings were on the edge for NTSC so PAL versions didn't do color till a little later.