Re: Weird/Missing colors on my Apple //e...

["IceMan" <toomuch@spam.here>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The inexpensive (<$100) NTSC-to-VGA converters that I've tried have
> all been both inaccurate and "slithery", by which I mean that narrow
> vertical features in the display move back and forth horizontally by
> a pixel or more in a more or less random way.
> I consider them barely useable, and not at all satisfactory.

    Yes, I don't expect super stable definition out of such a box, it was
just to try some of my old games in color - I had never seen them. The box
works fine in other cases (VCR, TV etc). Even with the "mono" settings and
white text I get no "slithering" - the characters are nice and stable
though.

> The PAL composite video is enough unlike NTSC that it could easily
> account for your missing/incorrect colors, but it may just mess up
> certain colors.  ;-(

    Yeah, and if the signal is "dirty" with other components as suggested,
weird things do happen: my box tells me I have a SECAM signal! There must be
some signal interference as the SECAM subcarrier is 4.25/4.40MHz while PAL
is (as the XTAL read onm y PAL IIe) 4.43...

    Thanks,

            Luke