Re: apple //e colour problem

[salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <92rrah$8gq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,  worthair@optushome.com.au wrote:
>i've recently obtained an apple IIe (NTSC ver. 1986) and i cant get it
>to work in colour through the composet video output. I've tried it on a
>commodore 1084 monitor and numourus TV's without sucsess.
>it only works as if its monochrome black and white only :/

You're trying to plug a device that produces a color signal into a device
that expects a colour signal...that doesn't work too well. :-)

Judging by your email address, the monitors and TVs you're likely to run
across expect PAL video.  Since you specified that your IIe generates NTSC
video, you're not going to get color from it on a PAL monitor or TV.  You
might go back to where you got your computer and see if they can track down
an NTSC-compatible color monitor for you.  If they can't, you'll need to
either have one shipped to you (probably from a country that uses
NTSC...examples are the United States, Canada, and Japan) or settle for
monochrome.  If you import a monitor from elsewhere, keep in mind that line
voltage in the US and Canada is 120V, and line voltage in Japan is (IIRC)
100V.  This means that you'll more than likely need a step-down transformer
as well.  (Frequency doesn't make any difference.  I have a IIe system
(American-spec) that my parents bought fifteen years ago at the BX at RAF
Lakenheath.  It spent its first three years in England and Germany, running
on a transformer, before we returned to the States.)

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