Re: Apple IIc --- output options

[buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

You hinted correctly at the fault:  The little TV box for the Apple IIc is
intended for American NTSC ("never twice the same color") TV signal, while
Germany uses PAL ("perfection at last") TV signal.  These NTSC and PAL
signals are incompatible.

Some TV monitors can handle both systems but those monitors are very very
expensive....

Steve Buggie
Gallup NM


GALLUP NM --- home of Teddy Roosevelt's 1898 "rough riders"
              heroes of the Spanish-American war

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Felix H. Gatzemeier (fxg@imib.RWTH-Aachen.De) wrote:

: I recently bought a IIc for cheap money and am now trying to get it to work
: with a TV set, with little success. Since there was no paper about it, I can
: hardly make out what all those icons are trying to tell me, so I'm somewhat
: lost. I haven't made my way through all that's in ground.isca.uiowa.edu, but
: I'm posting this anyhow, hoping that some kind soul will nudge me in the right
: direction.

: If I plug in the usual antenna cable to the Cinch plug in the case, I get no
: signal at all. That's not that tragic, it expect it to deliver some US-type
: video signal (what's it called? PAL? Or was that the european one?), and I'm
: using it in Germany.

: So I use that converter/adaptor box that gets attached to the video port,
: covers that cinch thing and offers two new ones --- both labeled with monitor
: (?) icons, one with overlapping circles (would that mean color?). With the
: circled plug, I get no signal at all, with the other one just a very poor
: image: shifted up, wavey, blurred horizontally, stripes on the background. Just
: enough so that I'm able to make out that the ting is apparently working,
: because different disks result in different images.

: So, what I'm wondering here is: Is this a sign of a hardware defect? Is there
: some kind of trickery in attaching a IIc to a `modern' (i.e. no dials to turn)
: TV set? I have an old Orion Monitor dusting away in the corner that might
: accept TTL or RGB signals (now that's some description) --- how picky is a IIc
: with general monitors?

: Thanks

: -- 
: Felix

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