Re: How I got interested in the Apple ][...

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Dec 17, 10:27 pm, Linards Ticmanis <ticma...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> (Apple color graphics do in fact suck on a PAL screen IMHO,
> which together with the price might explain why they were so
> unpopular over here.

The only real exception may have been Non-NTSC Apple's
with RGB-videocards but they were even more scarce.

> The picture is always shaky and unstable. With today's
> multisystem TVs, I converted all my Apples to NTSC.)

I have a PAL IIe connected via composite and it doesn't
shake or is unstable at all. Maybe the TV plays a heavy
part in this, too.

The colors look a bit different, but I think this is no major
problem. Actually it produces a pretty "clean" picture on
my TV set and doesn't even have color fringing in the text
lines in mixed mode. A big advantage in my book.

However, the whole picture is squashed like with pretty much
all other computers of the time - nobody really used the PAL
picture height before the PAL Amigas or well localized game
consoles came out. Using US software with a PAL machine
introduces new problems, though.

Therefore, IMHO, an NTSC board is indeed the best solution.

bye
Marcus