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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Using a C64 In France?
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 10:23:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 10:23:22 1985
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I would recommend buying the 64 in Europe.  The money that would be
saved buying it here would be lost in power converters, import duties,
and problems finding parts and service.

In regards to TV standards, C-64s are available in North America and
Japan for the NTSC standard, and in Europe for the PAL standard.
Unfortunately for you, France uses its own SECAM standard (hooray
for the "Not Invented Here" syndrome!) and as far as I know, there
are no U.S.-type computers or video games which are available for
use with SECAM.

The best way out is to buy a European "PAL" C-64 and a European "PAL"
TV or composite (not RGB) monitor.  These will run off of French power
and will work with each other, but you wouldn't be able to watch French
broadcasts on the European TV.  If you get a monitor, you do *not* want
an RGB monitor -- the C-64 does not have RGB outputs, and an RGB monitor
costs 3 times as much as a composite monitor (like the 1702) anyway :-)
-- 
Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug