Re: Apple IIc --- output options

[ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione)]

   Plug the Cinch (RCA) plug into the video in of the tv or vcr.  The IIc
has no RF output like a Commodore 64.  The adaptor you have may be faulty.

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Felix H. Gatzemeier (fxg@imib.RWTH-Aachen.De) wrote:

> I recently bought a IIc for cheap money and am now trying to get it to work
> with a TV set, with little success. Since there was no paper about it, I can
> hardly make out what all those icons are trying to tell me, so I'm somewhat
> lost. I haven't made my way through all that's in ground.isca.uiowa.edu, but
> I'm posting this anyhow, hoping that some kind soul will nudge me in the right
> direction.

> If I plug in the usual antenna cable to the Cinch plug in the case, I get no
> signal at all. That's not that tragic, it expect it to deliver some US-type
> video signal (what's it called? PAL? Or was that the european one?), and I'm
> using it in Germany.

> So I use that converter/adaptor box that gets attached to the video port,
> covers that cinch thing and offers two new ones --- both labeled with monitor
> (?) icons, one with overlapping circles (would that mean color?). With the
> circled plug, I get no signal at all, with the other one just a very poor
> image: shifted up, wavey, blurred horizontally, stripes on the background. Just
> enough so that I'm able to make out that the ting is apparently working,
> because different disks result in different images.

> So, what I'm wondering here is: Is this a sign of a hardware defect? Is there
> some kind of trickery in attaching a IIc to a `modern' (i.e. no dials to turn)
> TV set? I have an old Orion Monitor dusting away in the corner that might
> accept TTL or RGB signals (now that's some description) --- how picky is a IIc
> with general monitors?

> Thanks

> -- 
> Felix

> (fxg@imib.RWTH-Aachen.de   NeXT-Mail ok, but slow)