Re: Composite B/W only? ][europlus and (French) //e

["Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.co.uk>]

"Sean McNamara" <sean@macassist.com.au> wrote in message 
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> Hi folx,
>
> I have a quick question about composite output from ][europluses and
> French //es (haven't tried my Australian //e yet).
>
> I hooked these machines up to my VCR (thence onto my TV) and directly
> into my TV, which both have AV inputs, and the output is Black & White
> only - no colours. Is this normal behaviour for PAL Apple ][s? Is my TV
> doing something screwy with the signal? The composite signal from our
> VCR and DVD player are both in full colour, so I don't think it's the
> TV. I don't have an RF modulator to see if that output is any different.


//e's have a colour killer dipswitch in the middle of the board. Flip that 
off and you should get colour. However since you have a French //e it might 
well be putting out SECAM instead of PAL. If the switch is off any non 
black/white stuff will display a black and white bit pattern instead of 
colours. Run Brickout and flip the switch you should see the difference 
fairly clearly.

On the Europlus if you change the crystal frequency and resolder the two 
traces you'll get proper NTSC instead, it might be easier to find an 
NTSC->PAL converter than finding a Apple PAL card (Which is RGB IIRC and 
hence finding a matching monitor in these all VGA days might be hard)

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