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Re: apple //e display problem
- Subject: Re: apple //e display problem
- From: "Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 03:18:21 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)
- References: <0KEl6.9507$pG5.32617@news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au>
- Xref: supernews.google.com comp.sys.apple2:6522
I'll assume from your email address that you're in Australia. Australian TVs
and Commodore monitors made for the Australian market all use PAL colour
encoding. Your Apple IIe uses the rival NTSC colour encoding which will
display as greyscale on PAL devices. You need an NTSC TV or monitor to see
the colours. Apple made plenty of compatible monitors, mine is the
"AppleColor Composite Monitor" which works fine. If you can't get hold of an
Apple monitor you might need to get an NTSC TV; they are hard to come by in
Australia.
By the way, many multi-standard TVs which claim to work with NTSC signals
may not display correctly because the Apple video output is a little
off-spec.
Simon.
> i've recently obtained an apple IIe (NTSC ver. 1986) and i cant get it to
> work in colour through the composet video output. I've tried it on a
> commodore 1084 monitor and numourus TV's without sucsess.
> it only works as if its monochrome black and white only :/
>
> any help would be apreciated
> worthair@optushome.com.au