Re: Can I use a US motherboard in my European Apple IIe?

["Linards Ticmanis" <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

> If I could get hold of the proper monitor or even an analog monitor that
> is suitable I wouldn't need to do that but it seems that these are hard
> to come by and those that still have such hold on to them. Even a CGA
> monitor is pretty impossible to come by, and yes - I hold on to mine (I
> sometimes use it with a PC-AT clone with a CGA card).

You could try getting a Commodore 1084 Monitor, as used mostly for the
Amiga and/or C128. They're quite common (at least over here in
Germany), pretty versatile (you can even fit in a SCART socket and use
it as a satellite TV), and generally they offer good image quality.
They have RGBI capability, albeit on a round DIN socket, not a
CGA-shaped one. It's very easy to build an adapter, however.

As for "enhancing" your IIe, the 65C02 CPU can be bought in several
places online, and for the ROMs I made some EPROMS from ROM files
available online. If you have access to a burner it's very easy to do.
I could even correct the look of the botched German umlauts that some
joker at Apple Germany seems to have designed while on LSD. ;-)

-- 
Linards Ticmanis