js@cimmeri.com wrote:
Scott Alfter wrote:S-video should produce clean 80-column text and monochrome graphics, as long as you're just connecting the composite output from the II into the S-video jack's Y input and leave the C input disconnected.But the C is quite important. :-)
And for most monitors, the "sharpness" of the display is set by the luminance (Y) signal, and the presence of the chrominance (C) signal only adds color info. (Of course, if you're looking at text, you may not *want* color info. ;-) -michael Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."