oblivion
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Yhep, did all that. The drive is 32-bit so it's all set as the primary partition and its active. But for whatever reason the system will not boot from it
composite seems to work okay. there are 3 settings for the switch on the front of the monitor (comp, sept, rgb) comp gives me a fuzzy image, sep. gives me a better image, these work if I have a composite cable plugged in. if I select RGB I just get the crazy smashed rolling image. adjusting the knobs for v and h hold doesn't help if I switch the switch on the back of the monitor from analog to digital RGB the picture gets brighter but that's it.
I have a Commodore PC20-III (same as the Colt really) with a Commodore 1084S, and a proper RGB cable, which works fine, no need to connect composite either. I doubt that Commodore changed it at any point. The RGB input was mainly for C128.
It will not do colour composite by the way.
I also used a Philips CM8833 (same thing as a 1084S really), and same story there. Works perfectly with RGB cable, and composite works as well, but not in colour.
I know the Commodore outputs composite in colour (with PCjr-compatible artifacts it would seem, not the same as CGA at least), because I had it connected to an NTSC colour-compatible capture device and LCD TV.
Probably the reason you're not getting colo(u)r is because you're trying to display NTSC video on a monitor designed for PAL.
So what I'm getting out of this is that the 1084s will do rgb from the colt with the right cable but not do color composite just b/w.
I am amazed at all the different versions of 1084 monitors.
It was because of cost-cutting. After Phillips could no longer make them cheap enough, Commodore switched to Daewoo, using a cheaper CRT with a larger dot pitch.