Re: Un-EURO-ing the Europlus?

["Tim Haynes" <tim.haynes@rogers.com>]

I'll trade you a stock II+ for your IIeuro+, if that will help.  :)

Cheers
Tim

"Linards Ticmanis" <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> since PAL cards for the II Europlus don't exactly grow on trees, and
> since it is rather easy nowadays to find NTSC-video capability even in
> small European TV sets (e.g. all those made by Thompson) and most PC TV
> cards, and thirdly since 60Hz don't give you quite as much of a headache
> as 50Hz, (also there's quite enough EUROs in Europe nowadays... ;-) I
> wonder what I'd have to do to convert a II Europlus Mainboard (Revision
> 7) back to II+? I understand I have to open up solder pads 7 and 8 to
> prevent some video signals to reach slot 7, so it becomes usable for
> other cards again. I also understand I have to swap the Quartz for a
> standard 14.318... MHz one, if possible without destroying the old
> 14.25... one since it is almost impossible to get. Then what do I have
> to change to go back to 60Hz video, activate the 65th cycle stretch and
> so on?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated. I guess it should be in some technical
> documentation that describes how to modify the board for the Europlus,
> which I'd simply have to reverse then. Unfortunately I don't have any
> such docs.
>
> --
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> Linards Ticmanis
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>   The Master said, "The business of laying on the colors follows the
> preparation of the plain ground."
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