Without additional hardware (composite PAL to NTSC converter) I think it is not possible to use the composite PAL output to drive a NTSC monitor. Your garbled screen explains this, because the PAL signal contains color information that drives your NTSC monitor nuts. With the VDP comamnd you effectively switch off the color info and the signal contains only intensity. You could have better luck with a monitor with an RGB connector. That way you avoid the PAL color manipulation. And RGB is so much sharper. Hans -----Original Message----- From: Brendan Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 February 2001 15:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Just recently, I finally got my MSX2 in the mail. However, I've been having a good deal of problems with it. First of all, the SCART-to-composite connector outputs pure garbage, with some strange glitch rolling from top to bottom. The cable supposedly converts the SCART output to composite, and the audio is fine, oddly enough. Secondly, even when I use the "vdp(10)=vdp(10) AND 253 ' 253=11111101" or "vdp(10)=0" commands, the image displays in black and white. This is due to the differences between PAL and NTSC, correct? Finally, my MSX2 suddenly started complaining "Disk offline" and suddenly refused to read floppies. I think that it is no longer capable of detecting floppies, perhaps because of a worn-out rubber band, as was suggested to me. Is this correct? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
