Re: Dating a C-64 board

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 1999-04-19 03:45:22

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Richard Atkinson wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, William Levak wrote:
> 
> > Only the original board had the 5 pin connector.  This version was not
> > compatible with PAL and was not sold in Europe.
> 
> Careful what you say, Bill. I don't know *for*sure* if my Really Early C64
> is the 'original' board, but it certainly has a 5 pin video socket and the
> video circuit seperate from the modulator as in the PRG diagram. The only
> thing required of the _PCB_ for PAL compatibilty is some way of setting
> the clock divider to 18 instead of 14.
> 
What I said was:

That the original C64 was not PAL compatible and was not sold in Europe.

Both of those things are true.  Whether or not someone could modify it to
run on PAL is an entirely different question.



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