Re: > TV as monitor for IIGS?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <42aift$l7a@wizard.uark.edu>,
Benjamin L. Winnick <bwinnick@comp.uark.edu> wrote:
> I'm using a IIGS connected to my roommates 21" television set.  Prior
> to that I had it connected to a composite monitor at home.  I have
> the same problems in both situations; colors bleeding all over the
> place.

There isn't anything you can do about it: it is a design feature in
the way the Apple II generates colour video on a composite monitor.
Killing the colour (e.g. in the IIe with the switch on the motherboard)
often helps, as the computer then generates monochrome video.

> Specifically, at the border between any two colors, even black and
> white, I'll get some nice glowin bit 'o the rainbow.  This is
> especially annoying with 640-mode text.  Switching the control panel
> to 'monochrome' helps, but stuff is still blurry.

The monochrome setting will kill the colour output, and causes the
IIgs to generate dot patterns instead of trying to generate colours.
Video output in 80-column text, double hi-res or 640-mode super hi-res
will still be blurry, because it is higher resolution than a TV is
intended to display clearly.  These resolutions work very well on a
composite monochrome monitor (not sure about a colour monitor).

An RGB monitor avoids all of these problems (on the IIgs, at least).
-- 
David Empson
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