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  • New to Apple II!

    From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 4 12:19:39 2025
    Hello!

    I am new to Apple II. I intend to bid in an auction
    for Apple II Europlus computer, hoping to win it.

    As a preliminary, I bought a modern VGA graphics card
    so that I can use a pretty modern monitor with Apple
    II.

    I have been told that the original Pal Encoder
    card must go to the expansion slot 7. What about
    this new VGA card? Which slot should should I put it
    into?

    Thanks for any advice!

    br,
    KK

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  • From Charlie@21:1/5 to Kalevi Kolttonen on Sun May 4 13:17:52 2025
    On 5/4/2025 8:19 AM, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
    Hello!

    I am new to Apple II. I intend to bid in an auction
    for Apple II Europlus computer, hoping to win it.

    As a preliminary, I bought a modern VGA graphics card
    so that I can use a pretty modern monitor with Apple
    II.

    I have been told that the original Pal Encoder
    card must go to the expansion slot 7. What about
    this new VGA card? Which slot should should I put it
    into?

    Thanks for any advice!

    br,
    KK

    Hi Kalevi,

    What VGA graphics card did you buy?

    I'm no expert on the Apple II Europlus but on the Apple II+ (and I
    believe on all the other slotted Apples) slot #7 has two pins that are
    for video. Pin 19 has the video SYNC signal and pin 35 is the 3.5 MHz
    color reference signal. These signals are not available on the other slots. Depending on how your VGA card works it may or may not need these signals.

    Charlie

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to Charlie on Mon May 5 13:24:08 2025
    Charlie <charlieDOTd@vereyezon.net> wrote:
    What VGA graphics card did you buy?

    https://github.com/markadev/AppleII-VGA/

    I'm no expert on the Apple II Europlus but on the Apple II+ (and I
    believe on all the other slotted Apples) slot #7 has two pins that are
    for video. Pin 19 has the video SYNC signal and pin 35 is the 3.5 MHz
    color reference signal. These signals are not available on the other slots. Depending on how your VGA card works it may or may not need these signals.

    PAL Encoder card certainly goes to slot #7. I have been
    told that my VGA card can go to any of the slots.

    br,
    KK

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