Hi, I got my A1200 after C= went bankrupt and before Escom started making them again. I had to wait months before I got my machine, so I wasn't inclined to send it back if it had a problem.
It does have a problem, but I'm not sure if it's common or not. I haven't seen anyone complain about it (not that I've been around people who could), but when I use the composite video out in NTSC mode, I don't get a color picture. It's a PAL-native machine from the UK, and the PAL output is in color. Is it normal for the color to go out of the picture when switching modes? I don't remember the NTSC A500 or A600 doing that when I put them into PAL mode.
I'm in the US, so I don't have ready access to PAL monitors and the composite monitor that I do have doesn't seem to have a vertical hold adjustment, so I can't compensate for the time differences.
When this was my main computer, I used an adapter to run in VGA mode and just didn't bother with the lower screen modes. Now, however, I'd like to do the nostalgia thing and play some old games the way they were meant to be played, but I can't. Also, my '030 + RAM expansion card seems to have died, so I can't even use the main software I had on Workbench, so it's kind of down to playing old games which isn't as nice in grayscale.
Thanks.
