Re: Apple II RGB Monitor Problem

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote in message
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: I tested out some games and came up with some strange results:
:
: Crossbow - Plays in monochrome, also on the screen that shows the
: instructions, the display goes all wanko on me (some random looking
: blocks).  This is odd because the screen is just plain and simple text,
: nothing unusual.
:
: Airheart - Plays in monochrome
:
: Prince of Persia - Plays alright, but some of the text is blurry and
: hard to read (like on the title screen)
:
: Kings Bounty - Same issues as Prince of Persia.  The text is blurry
: (like on the copyright screen).
:
: I have no idea what is causing this, but it's a real shame I can't use
: my RGB monitor.  I really like how the colors and image looked, they
: were so much better than the composite (which seems like a huge step
: backwards now).  I wonder if there is a way to fix the issues I'm
: having?
:
: On an interesting side note, I found the cable my friend sent me with
: the monitor and its different than the cable I had been using.  Up
: until this point I had been using my IIgs monitor cable.  The IIgs
: monitor cable has a full set of pins, whereas this cable only has a
: few.  I have no idea what the difference is, but I get the exact same
: problems with both cables.  I wonder why they made the cables different?

Actually, the fewer pinned cable IS the IIgs cable, the other is
a Mac cable. They will both work on the IIgs, but only the fully
pinned version will work on the Mac.

Apple II Forever, Apple II Together
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez
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