Re: Connecting Apple II+ to TV

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes...
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>If you are seeing color banding on the text characters while in a graphic
>mode, this is perfectly normal for all ]['s running on composite monitors.
>This usually means that the text characters are shades of violet and
>green.  If you get this effect while running in a text-only mode, then it
>is possible that you are using a modified original-][.  One of the
>enhancements in the ][+ was a "color-killer" circuit which strips out the
>color burst signal when the system is displaying text only.

        The "color burst" killer circuit was present in the second
revision of the Apple ][ (revision 1), although it's effectiveness
was improved around the time of the Apple ][ Plus (sometime between
revision 7 and the RFI shielded revision). I have an Apple ][ with
revision 2 motherboard, the color-killer is a tad flaky, though it
mostly depends on the type of color display I use. I haven't played
around with my Apple ][ Plus (RFI revision 'C') to notice if it works
any better, though I expect it should.

>--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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Mitchell Spector
m_spect@vega.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca