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Re: Apple //e w/o Color



"Georg Renelt" <georg@renelt.net> writes:
>i have an unenhanced apple //e (pal) with a lack of color. when i'm
>switching from mono to color (or backwards - don't remember exactly) there
>are full colors for a fraction of a second and then this noisy color-signal.
>switched to mono he produces a wonderful grayscaled picture.

When you say you switch from mono to color or reverse is that with the
color killer switch on the motherboard (near IOU chip)?

>so i messed a little bit with the color-capacitor, but there was not change
>in the meaning of more or less color, but a significant change in more or
>less noise in color-pictures. the only schematics i have are from the
>technical reference manual and these are not complete, i think.

Yes - Apple never published the PAL //e schematics. Jim Sather does have
the PAL //e color encoder schematic in his book "Understanding the Apple //e".
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia