Re: Dating a C-64 board

From: Nicolas Welte (welte_at_chemie.uni-konstanz.de)
Date: 1999-04-19 16:51:42

Richard Atkinson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, William Levak wrote:
> 
> > > > Only the original board had the 5 pin connector.  This version was not
> > > > compatible with PAL and was not sold in Europe.
> > >
> > > Careful what you say, Bill. I don't know *for*sure* if my Really Early C64
> > > is the 'original' board, but it certainly has a 5 pin video socket and the
> > > video circuit seperate from the modulator as in the PRG diagram. The only
> > > thing required of the _PCB_ for PAL compatibilty is some way of setting
> > > the clock divider to 18 instead of 14.
> > >
> > What I said was:
> >
> > That the original C64 was not PAL compatible and was not sold in Europe.
> >
> > Both of those things are true.  Whether or not someone could modify it to
> > run on PAL is an entirely different question.
> 
> Well obviously no C64 with an NTSC-only kernal ROM and an NTSC video chip
> would be sold in Europe, but I am quite sure that it was Commodore
> themselves that modified this C64's board to run in PAL.

Does it have a PAL-G or PAL-I modulator, i.e. do you get color and sound
on your PAL-TV? I think if it is an original PAL machine, then it must
also have a proper PAL modulator.

Nicolas
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