Re: Do all Apple IIe's have RF output?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <470bf98a$0$5305$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
Tristan Mumford  <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:

> MarkW wrote:
> 
>> I have an Amiga 1084 monitor which has a composite input so if I'm
>> right that should be okay to use with the Apple IIe, right?
> 
> It depends...
> Commodore released half a billion different models and revisions of
> everything.
> 
> My 1084S monitors will not work with my Apple //e because the models I have
> are both PAL and my //e is NTSC.

Don't they work at all with your //e?

Of course they won't show any colors, but won't they at least show you
a black-and-white image?  In my experience, it's generally not that
hard to make a European 25 fps 625-line TV set sync to an American 30
fps 525-line video signal to get at least a black-and-white image.
 
> You may have one of the PAL/NTSC 1084S models or plain NTSC, or even a
> PAL //e (although they aren't all that common).
> 
> It can't hurt trying anyway. At worst you just get a mono picture with a
> grey-ish tint. You can't damage anything, o give it a try! If that is the
> case though, just press the green button to save some eyestrain as NTSC
> through a PAL monitor does look pretty horrid.
> 
> Tristan.
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