r.lagendijk_at_hccnet.nl
Date: 2005-06-15 20:24:57
Hi,
Thank you all for the responce, I'm thinking about buying a video to VGA box that can handle the PAL-N. I hope I can find one that also does NTSC and NTSC-J for my other C64's. Or maybe a nice flatscreen tv that does all these formats
Greetings Richard
> wELL...let me tell you my experience.. i happen to live in one of the 2
> countries in the whole world (i guessÇ), that use PAL-N
>
> And when i buy a computer from europe, which i think is PAL B. for
> example, from Germany, i can only see it in black & white...no colour at
> all.. I use a transcoder pal-n-pal-whatever to be able to watch in full
> colours everything...
>
> Somebody told me that PAL-N is like a cheap version of original PAL...
> Why my country adopted such a decision...well...yo have to go back to the
> World Cup ´78....and ask technicians here and from Telefunken (the company
> who brought PAL to Argentina specially for tv for the World Cup....) But
> thats another story...
>
> Just my 2 cents...
> Regards
>
>
> Sebastian
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo" <commodore128@hotmail.com>
> To: <cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se>
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:48 PM
> Subject: Re: PAL-N
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Arndt Övermann" <arndt.oevermann@freenet.de>
>> To: <cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se>
>> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 2:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: PAL-N
>>
>>
>>
>>> Am Montag, 13. Juni 2005 18:46 schrieb r.lagendijk@hccnet.nl:
>>> Salve Richard,
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have a C64c with a 6572R1 as a VIC-II. I plugged it into a 1084
>>>> but only got a black and white picture. After googling I found out
>>>> that the
> 6572R1
>
>>>> is PAL-N. Is there a trick to get a color picture on a standard PAL
>>>> monitor? Or do I have to get a PAL-N compatible monitor or TV.
>>>
>>> PAL-N uses a colour carrier with 3.58 MHz. This PAL-Version is used
>>> in South-America (e. g. Argentina) with the broadcast standard CCIR N.
>>> VHS-Tapes, they are recorded with a PAL-N VHS-Recorder can be play
>>> back
> in
>>> a PAL (Europe, Asia, Australia, New-Zealand) VHS-Recorder and vice
>>> versa
> in
>>> colour. This C64, which you own, can only used Monitor or a TV-Set
>>> with PAL-N standard.
>>
>>
>> Not completely true. You can buy a video capture card such as the ati
>>
> "all
>
>> in wonder" that you install into your modern pc and it will handle pal
>> (
>> many different types too) ,secam, and ntsc. I hook up my pal vic-20 and
> c128
>> to the video inputs and I get an excellent color picture on my 19 inch
> svga
>> monitor. Finally got to play Toki, over here in canada, on my C128!
>>
>>
>> Leo
>>
>>
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