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- From: ceejack@crl.com (Jack Vander White)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: NTSC vs PAL questions...
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 09:35:07 -0700
- Organization: Humanity Against Late-Night Infomercials
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- TODD ELLIOTT (telliott@ubmail) wrote:
- : In article <9604100246.AA001bf@cosine.demon.co.uk>, Jason <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk> writes:
- : > Yep, just yank the Vic and swap it for a PAL one. Thats all I did to get
- : > an NTSC machine!
-
- Then it's not a PAl machine. The PAL 64 also requires a different crystal.
-
- : > Check your TV/monitor can take a 50hz signal first tho!
- : >
- : It was my understanding that the 1084 monitor by CBM can take either PAL or
- : NTSC output automatically. Anyone with more technical knowledge is free to
- : correct this.
-
- Some 1084 monitors do detect PAL or NTSC automatically and say so in the
- instruction booklet with them. Others do not. There are actually several
- versions/revisions of the 1084 mamufactured by different companies for
- Commodore. You expected consistency???? From Commodore????
-
- Luckily I have both PAL and NTSC versions of the C64 and PLUS/4. Don't
- have a PAL 128 yet though. ALso have a 1084 that autodetects PAL/NTSC.
-
- No, I don't keep them all set up at once. Use the PAL ones when necessary
- to check something out.
-
- Jack VW
-