Adrian Vickers wrote:
>Not this bad - my AH QL had a nice clear picture (despite the variety
of
>ropey TVs it was used on, including two ancient B/W jobs picked up
for �1
>each at a boot sale); I didn't get a monitor for it until about 1991
or 2,
>and a colour monitor a few years later (picked up from a QL show in
Chester
>- I *think* I bought it off Dilywn's stand...).
Can't have been me, I didn't have a stand at that one, despite being
the organiser. A family death meant that although I made a token
appearance, I wasn't really up to it the event was handled by Mike
Kenneally and some Club QL International members on the day to help me
out in the circumstances, the only DJC presence being a few copies of
Norman Dunbar's PE Idiot's Guide making an early appearance at �1 each
for charity IIRC. Certainly no monitors from me, sorry!
>This one is very flakey, with washed out colours and lots of
interference.
>OTOH, it may be because the QL is surrounded by CBM PETs... :)
Some Spectrums had flakey pictures on some TV sets which could be
improved by deliberately mistuning the TV slightly. The QL's TV
picture output is not too bad on the whole, by comparison with some
Spectra for example. The main problem with using a QL with a TV is
that mode 4 csize 0,0 text is barely readable and most TV sets cannot
display the full 512 pixel wide screen.
If you have a TV set with a SCART connector, it can make a pretty good
monitor. Connection details were published in QL Toady some time ago.
CBM PETs??? I remember the name, but not the computer itself, is it
from the VIC20 and C64 era?
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