Shawn Jefferson Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 I recently bought a PAL XEGS, and hooked it up to my Commodore 1084 monitor. The machine works, and after adjusting the vertical hold, I only get black and white graphics. Is this normal, or could there be something wrong with the XEGS? Thanks, Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 That is normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Yep, PAL and NTSC encode color differently, so you'd need a PAL monitor. -Bry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin72 Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Hi, you don't get color now because of the different tv systems, so your tv and your computer working properly. There're two things you can do: 1) use another tv with Pal system 2) convert your atari system to PAL. Option 2 is more difficult, because you must change the antic and gtia chip to NTSC types and change the crystals inside the computer. Recently i convert a atari 800 system from NTSC to PAL and it works! Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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