Re: GS international?

[gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent Quinn)]

In article <afkd86shx8b.fsf@dobbs.eng.sun.com>,
Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> wrote:

>I bought a German IIgs a while back and plugged it in for fun to a
>step up transformer and it worked.  So, at minimum you can do the same
>in reverse (get a step down transformer and plug it in).  What ever
>you do, do _not_ use a plug adaptor.  That will blow up the poor US
>IIgs to bits (and perhaps cause a fire).
>
>The motherboards should be the same except for video signal
>generation.  I suspect, but was not able to test, that the composite
>video out is PAL in Europe while NTSC in the US.  However, the RGB
>port is autodetecting, so I was able to get 60 and 50 Hz out of there.

I know this ain't GS but it's relevant: I have one //c with an Irish/UK
motherboard, a second //c with a US board that replaced a failed Irish one
(I swapped-in the character ROM from the failed board so that shift-3 gives
the pound character, not the hash character). Composite video out on the
Irish board is PAL, on the US board it is NTSC. When hooked up to a PAL
monitor with composite colour input (Philips CM3388 II), the NTSC board
gives better, cleaner colour with less ripple than the PAL board. When
using the NTSC board with a _monochrome_ display, the ripple on the video
quickly becomes annoying whereas the PAL board shows almost no ripple at
all. Is there any sort of autodetection built-in to the //c? How come I get
better colour on a PAL monitor from a NTSC board?

Vincent Q