Re: Help with Video on IIe (was: Re: PAL Colour Card)

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <cZap5.10713$Xg.103905@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "news-server"
<simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:


>I think I have a Platinum IIe. It's got the enhanced keyboard. Is there a
>difference between the Enhanced IIe and Platinum IIe?

If it has the keyboard with the numeric keypad then it is an Extended
Keyboard IIe, unless someone has been switching motherboards on you :). You
can check by looking inside. Near the front of the board (nearest you when
you're sitting at the keyboard) should be the RAM chips. In the earlier IIe
there are 8 of them, in the extended keyboard version there are only two.

>Anyway it has the aux slot in line with slot 3. I have it connected into the
>RCA input (not antenna) on a PAL TV, and it displays a monochrome image. The
>image is perfectly stable, but doesn't take up the full screen, actually
>only the top 3/4 of the screen.
>
>I'd like to know, do I have an NTSC output, and how can I produce color
>output onto my TV?
>
>thanks,
>Simon.

If it's an extended keyboard IIe then it will be NTSC. I'm sure Apple never
made the extended IIe in a PAL version. The earlier IIe did have a PAL
version, the one I have is labelled "Apple IIe PAL" on the board near the
back of the computer. From the picture you're getting I'm betting your IIe
is outputting NTSC video. You could try feeding the video into a
multistandard TV which can display NTSC, but that might not work either. The
IIe generates a video signal which is close to NTSC. Years ago I tried an
NTSC IIe on three different multistandard TVs with no luck.


Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws
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