Re: RGB card for IIe

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

>Completely sure, this is the monitor & card I use with my Apple //e. I
>did a fair amount of research into this question (mostly through the
>comp.sys.apple2.* archives on Google) which led me to my statement that
>this is the only combination that will work on a //e ... unless there is
>some third party RGB analog card I've never heard of!

Well, there are the French "Le Chat Mauve"-cards with the product names
"Eve" and "Feline". They have the so-called "Peritel" outputs - which
is the older name of "SCART" - that provides analog RGB.

I have a Feline card that gave (defective now - didn't work in a 60 Hz
motherboard) a crisp picture. There were several problems, though:
- Generally some colors are a bit different when compared with the
composite output.
- The picture is "too blocky" in a lot of games, imho. Color dithering
does not work because of the sharpness - they don't blend into each
other anymore.
- Even worse: The double hires mode is strictly 140x192 - which means
no hires text (the pixels get colored like in a GS). Noticable in for
example Penguin graphics adventures or Dazzle Draw.

When used for the standard 80 character mode the card is great, though.
If you can live with the "height compressed" picture of 50 Hz PAL
Apples...

bye
Marcus