Re: Apple IIe RGB card?

["Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com>]

"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
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> In <S%i3d.10888$wV.8700@attbi_s54> Ernest wrote:
> > I have an Apple card which is labeled:
> >
> > A//e Ext. 80 col/RGB (1984 video 7)
> >
> > This will sound like a dumb question, but is this an RGB card? I don't
> > have the dongle for it, so I'm not sure. Would this go into the AUX
> > slot?
> >
> > Does anyone know the pin-outs for this, so that I could have a dongle
> > made for it? It has 16 pins on the plug.
> >
> > It also has two dip switches. Does anyone know what those are for?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > E.
>
> It's the Apple combined 64KB RAM/RGB video card for the Apple IIe
> auxilliary slot. I knew Video 7 used to make RGB adapters for the IIc,
> but I never knew the IIe card sold under Apple's name was made by Video
> 7 too.
>
> The card ouputs digital RGB video in the Apple III XRGB format. The
> connector it's supposed to have will be a 15-pin D socket, wired the
> same as the Apple III. It's designed to drive the AppleColor 100 display.
>
> Switches on RGB cards are generally for setting a single foreground and
> a single background colour in text mode, instead of just white on black.
> The IIGS lets you do the same thing. However this card is unusual in
> that it allows for full software control of the text colours. Each
> character can have its own foreground and background colours.
> Unfortunately this extended text mode never made it to the IIc, IIGS or
> other RGB cards, and I don't know of any software that supports it
> except for a demonstration disk that originally came with the card. A
> disk image is available from one of the Apple II software archives (
> sorry, I can't remember which one I saw it on).
>
> -- 
> Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
> http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/


I had read on one site that video 7 produced the rgb board which apple then
adopted.

Here ia a site with some pinouts .

http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/MiscInfo/Video/rgb15pin