Re: Apple II on PAL?

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Oct 18, 11:55 am, adric22 <adri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been asked already.  I've been searching around on
> Google and haven't really found an answer to this.   I live in North
> America and I am mostly a Commodore guy.   But I've been reading about
> how the Apple II video chip was designed to display color by using
> NTSC tricks.  So then I began to wonder if the Apple II was sold in
> Europe and how it worked on PAL systems.

The PAL version has slightly different circuitry to handle PAL.  In
order to accommodate the timing differences (50hz vs 60hz) there is a
timing difference onboard to accommodate that as well.  In order to
have PAL color, it required an additional card -- otherwise it was a
monochrome affair.

http://www.applefritter.com/node/23779

Having said that, it was a rather interesting thing for me living in
the Netherlands for 8 months with an American NTSC model (and NTSC
monitor) running on 50hz power.  We had to replace the power supply on
the //e after a month to a euro 220v supply -- and still have that in
a box somewhere, but otherwise no other issues.

-B