On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 8:37 PM Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was going to argue about this conclusion, but Bill Degnan posted first, and it's enough that he made the point. Jeff, if you had stated the problem clearly - and stated the work you did - someone might have suggested you recheck your work. Eventually that occurred to you, and you resolved the C-64 side of your problem.
I admit. I didn't include all the details, but I just wanted to know if a 1084-S could be used because others who had posted on reddit had said that I could use that monitor for C64 PAL machines that were converted from NTSC. Sometimes, Jeff, in solving a problem, one has to wander around it.
Solutions don't always fall out from the obvious. And don't grouse if your friends can't read your mind or see what's on your workbench - by email.
I had asked many times how to convert a NSTC C64 to PAL and got many different answers. One said that I needed a PAL monitor, another said I could use a modern LCD. One said that I needed a different power supply and a step-down converter, another said that I didn't. Another said that why don't I just buy a PAL C64 from Europe, etc. The point is that none of these people had actually converted a C64 and were in my opinion guessing. I feel like I was sent down the wrong path. I had told them what I had read about changing the crystal and VIC-II and was told other stuff that wasn't true about power. The only other thing that I had to do was put in a short wire and I was done. I do appreciate all the info that I got from everyone, and would like to understand from a high level view the difference between NTSC vs. PAL so that I can explain it to the layman.