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From: edb134t@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Daniel Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: BBC Microcomputer
Message-ID: <1991May20.061545.21310@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 20 May 91 06:15:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: monu6.1991May20.061545.21310
References: <2784@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1991May20.034649.1@vax1.tcd.ie>
Organization: Monash University (Caulfield Campus) Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1991May20.034649.1@vax1.tcd.ie> hughesmp@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>In article <2784@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>, cccph@jessica.cs.ucla.edu (Charles Hobbs) writes:
>>                                    The machine has been modified
>> for 120 VAC, but not for NTSC (some screen lines go off the top of
>> the screen, and I can't get any color, just shades of gray).
>
>The grey (if I remember correctly) is adjustable using a link...
>(Providing you are using the composite-video socket on the machine?)
>I don't know which link it is - I've never owned one of the machines,
>sadly... I think it may be near the video out... Then again, it may
>only be in my imagination. Someone with a machine might be able to
>comment? If it is there, moving it gives a colour output as opposed
>to the standard monochrome...

It's link S39. Make the link for colour through the composite video output.
I use it on the rare occasion that I wish to video-tape the output
of ye olde Beeb..  It gives a better picture than the UHF out, and no
white-noise on the sound..  And of course if you decide you want to
record in monochrome, you can.

However, I DON'T think that this is the problem. I believe it may be
the incompatibility with NTSC that's causing this. But what would I know?


Daniel Bowen
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