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

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

IceMan wrote:
>
>     yes there is just one switch under the front, which changes the # (hash)
> character with the UK £ (pound) sign.
>
>     I have been able to get my VGA adapter to display "PAL" instead of
> "SECAM" by tweaking the varicap on the motherboard (color synch). However,
> this did not change the colors: green and red seem to be nowhere while blue
> and brown are present.
>

If you have a NTSC-capable display you may be better off getting a US
motherboard which may produce "good enough" NTSC for your converter to
work.

US motherboards are relatively easy and cheap to get and require only a
bit of work to adapt into an Euro-Apple case. There is even a good
solution for keeping the non-US characters on keyboard & screen by Bill
Garber.

>     I have an old CRT PAL monitor, which I used with my Amiga 500 - it has a
> standard SCART input. I will solder on an RCA so I can use the Composite IN
> (the SCART cable for the Amiga only uses RGB and H/Vsync) and see if that
> monitor will yield the correct colors - I guess that's the best I can try
> for now.

This should work, too, but you'll get the usual squashed 50-Hz-picture.
Don't forget to re-adjust the color pots on the mainboard...

bye
Marcus