Re: apple IIc color monitor

[Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom>]

mdj wrote:

> On Feb 6, 9:34 pm, Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumf...@xgmail.xcom>
> wrote:
> 
>> Interesting. makes me wonder where that leaves my platinum IIe. It has a
>> board which apparently looks like a PAL board according to descriptions
>> I've read yet it says NTSC screenprinted onto the board. It also has the
>> US/UK charactersets and the switch underneath the keyboard to toggle
>> them.
> 
> The platinum IIe outputs 50hz NTSC on the European/Australian models,
> as does the IIc.
As I more or less said below which you probably wouldn't have read yet I
would have been happy enough to have a bodgey PAL with calibration pot.

> 
> The only monitors that will correctly display this signal (in colour)
> are the AppleColour Composite displays. The IIe and IIc units are
> functionally identical, and differ only in their casing.

Thankfully I have a couple of the IIe monitors. Only one works properly
though. IIRC the other one has a severe concave screen problem. I haven't
powered it on in over a decade.

My partner has a Konka 34cm TV that seems to handle anything I can throw at
it. Maybe one day I should see if the IIe works with it in colour.

> 
> This annoyed me sufficiently that several years ago I bought a US
> motherboard for my 'production' IIe. I have been much happier since.

Yeah, it's kind of been an issue with me too.
I wondered whether it were possible to either hack up a Poor-Man's-PAL
setup, or change the clocking to 60Hz.

> 
>> Slight extra tangent. I was reading some of the ProDOS tech reference
>> last night (I know, strange bit of bedtime reading) and realised that
>> expansionwise my IIe was the same as an unexpanded IIc.
> 
> If you installed a mouse card in slot 7 on a IIe, you qualify as
> wierd ;-)

...oh yeah. Oops. yeah that's not in slot 7. It's just mine has the 2xSSC2
cards, mouse card etc.
Mind you, odd thing. When I plopped the clone ][ floppy controller in there
for testing it overrode the 'proper' controller's role as default.

By the way everybody. I finally did an update to the USB project page on my
site.

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