Re: Apple II on PAL?

[spectrumdaddy@nospam.com (Ewen)]

adric22 <adric22@yahoo.com> wrote:

> So this card provided color on a PAL system, was it compatible with
> existing software on the Apple II that used color?  Also, did it have
> the same color-bleeding issues that the NTSC versions had?

The non-American Apple II was not PAL in itself. It just came with a 240
volt supply, and had the timing slightly adjusted to suit. It still
output NTSC natively, and needed some form of modulator, such as the PAL
card, to give colour output to PAL monitors. In my experience, it did
not work too well.

The non-American //c had a different power brick, and came with an
optional plug in PAL modulator.

It was only with the PAL //e, that we got a true PAL Apple II, as the
motherboard we had was entirely different, with the AUX memory slot in a
different place.

The IIgs reverted to an NTSC only computer, but as it had RGB output
that we could feed into a SCART control or a monitor, this did not
matter.

Cheers - Ewen