heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
Another, better solution (especially if you tinker with the Apple a lot or want to sell it as a unique item in Germany) would be to get a "video ROM adapter" and plug the German video ROM into it and the whole thingy into the ROM socket. Then you connect the switch to the adapter everything should work like with a German mainboard.
I would second that. It works very well. I can't comment on the Bill Garber adapter as I built my own (for an EPROM, not for a Apple ROM).
The font for the "US half" of the German video ROM is indeed identical to the original US Apple font by the way. Since I found the original Apple Umlauts ugly and badly designed I decided to use an EPROM with my own Umlauts in it.
Not only are the colors and aspect ratio improved, also the beat (=Schwebung) from the interference of the two quartzes is gone, since there is only one quartz on the US mainboard.
-- Linards Ticmanis