Re: Composite B/W only? ][europlus and (French) //e

[Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au>]

In article <cm7pk0$b2r$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>,
 "Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.co.uk> wrote:

> //e's have a colour killer dipswitch in the middle of the board. Flip that 
> off and you should get colour. However since you have a French //e it might 
> well be putting out SECAM instead of PAL. If the switch is off any non 
> black/white stuff will display a black and white bit pattern instead of 
> colours. Run Brickout and flip the switch you should see the difference 
> fairly clearly.

That fixed up the French //e - definitely colour, presumably PAL.

> On the Europlus if you change the crystal frequency and resolder the two 
> traces you'll get proper NTSC instead, it might be easier to find an 
> NTSC->PAL converter than finding a Apple PAL card (Which is RGB IIRC and 
> hence finding a matching monitor in these all VGA days might be hard)

My europlus will be staying PAL, pal! :) I may have a source for a PAL 
encoder card, so would prefer to go down that route.

Thanks for the tips.

Sean.

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