Re: Wordstar 4 on Apple II

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3c82b91a$1@news.uow.edu.au>, David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> wrote:
 
> e-person@libero.it writes:
> 
>>On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 05:57:07 +0100, Linards Ticmanis
>><ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> 
>>>> Also, there is a  60/50 Hz switch command, in the control panel.
>>>> Obviously not in yours. :-)
>>>
>>>Doesn't this just switch to 50 Hz NTSC? Can you run your IIgs with a 
>>>European composite (not RGB!) monitor, and still get color?
> 
>>Sorry, too much trouble. I don't want to move my GS to the living room
>>and connect it to the composite input of my TV.
> 
> Don't bother. The //gs was not made to support PAL color. I did hear
> that Apple Australia retrofitted some //gs computers with a PAL daughterboard
> (replacing the color encoder chip under the power supply) to meet the
> requirements of a school tender but I have not seen one.
> 
> Apple even dropped PAL support from the Platinum //e.
 
Was there ever any SECAM support for any version of the Apple II ?   :-)
 
 
Seriously, though, I never got any PAL card for my Apple II, and when
I realized I never would get one, I removed those extra wires to Slot
7, so it could be used as any other slot and not just for a PAL card.
Then I changed those motherboard jumpers to make the Apple II
generate video at 60 Hz instead of 50 Hz.  The video output was then
fed into an RF modulator and into a B&W TV set (later I got a B&W
video monitor instead).  Even though the B&W TV set was European, it
was easy enough to make it work on the American video signal: only
the vertical sync had to be adjusted somewhat (neither color nor
cound would have worked, of course, but since I had neither of these,
it didn't matter).
 
Somewhat later I got my first PC: a separate motherboard around which
I built a cabinet myself, adding a power supply and all the other
stuff needed to make it work.  The graphics card was a CGA card which
also had a composite video output.  I shared the same monitor between
the Apple II and the PC -- with a simple switch on the coax cable I
could easily switch which computer's video output should appear on
the monitor.  The PC's CGA card always produced 60 Hz video, of
course, and since I had made my Apple II produce 60 Hz video too,
I could switch the monitor from one computer to the other without
having to readjust the vertical sync..... :-)
 
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