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I like it. Just because there haven't been any follow-up post, doesn't mean that people haven't read it before it was edited.

I think this makes very good sense.

OK: I went to the System Prefs. thingy in Mac OS 10.7.5 and turned off all the F-keys mods.

Now I'm up queer street as the '=' (among others) key does not line up with the '=' on the Macintosh keyboard.

is your monitor a colour monitor ?

Look at my photographs before you ask me questions like that.

My wife's MacBook Air laptop has an fn key . . . but that is not every Macintosh.

I was just running MODE 5 as a rough guide.

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Which Perk are you going to get?
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deva ... s-design#/

I have about 12 Macintosh keyboards of various vintages to hand and I cannot work
out what you mean by "fn".

I normally use a 2001 iMac keyboard that has 15 F keys, and sometimes I use
a 2010 keyboard that has 16 F keys.

Neither of these has anything marked "fn".

During the week I'll play silly buggers with the TVs and my BBC Master Compact.

Looking forward to Andro's arrival with the "Yellow" to VGA connectors on the 20th.

Here's the Retro Clinic RGB DIN to SCART:
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By far the best {and that's even visible even when my hand was wobbling].

Here's the UHF out that involves tuning tellies:
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Well, you do get colours: but at a crappy low standard.

So, here's the video output to AV (yellow to yellow): providing a relatively crisp image with no colours (suits me for teaching BBC BASIC ): - video_output_to_AV.png - similarly, video output to SCART : providing a relatively crisp image with no colours: - vide0_outout_to_SCART.png

Well, here I am back from my stroll, and a bit like a really corny 1970s musical:
I'm wrong in some ways and right in others.

So, just linking my tablet up with my 2006 iMac . . .

Knee-deep in some Bulgarian - English translation,
but this afternoon I'll stroll across to the school
and see whether I'm getting a colour signal with my "non-standard" rig.

Well, the first thing to check is the +5V supply to the modulator

Ach, Ah widnae fash masel anent that: Ahve an oot signal via the ither gate, and that'll suffice, forbye.

oke in simple englisch Possibly: but your message isn't simple to understand, I'm afraid. И, по принсип, нямам търпение с хора кой има проблеми с разни езици. what is the problem ? if you turn on your bbc , connecting uhf out to tv arial in you get picture ? if you turn on your bbc , connecting vid...

does the machine have internal modifications?

Not as far as I know.

As far as I can tell that machine is a "plain vanilla" model I bought from eBay last Summer.

If your TV spent time tuning in to a channel, that must surely have been the UHF output you had connected at the time? The leftmost connexion on my BBC Micro, labelled "UHF" doesn't seem to be much good. The telly tuning was from the next connexion to the right (labelled "Video Out"): - connexion.p...

a massive grey bezel

Good one!

Just a portable blackboard I bunged in behind the setup for the photos
so that the coathooks and other nonsense on the wall didn't interfere with things.

Here's the BBC Micro "doing its stuff" via the TV-out converter and the RCA - SCART with a bog-basic flatscreen TV (75 quid).

My BBC Master Compact is having a holiday on the right.
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This was a busted-flush:
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This, while possible, was a "right pox" as it involved waiting 15 minutes while the telly found the ATV channel (35) that the signal was coming through (while with the SCART the result was instantaneous): - P_20180609_114957_HDR.jpg - That is from the TV-out with my converter from the dustbin, as th...

While the Retro Clinic's RGB DIN to SCART works with the BBC Micro I could not get it to work with
my BBC Master Compact.
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Am also slightly *&^%$# with them as I bought 2 from them, and one of them had a wonky SCART connector so didn't work.

It really "cuts the mustard":
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sadly

and, before anyone gets "all hot and sweaty" about RGB - SCART connectors,
I picked this thing up in my local supermarket:
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And did a "Yellow to Yellow" job.

Connector1.png This is a marvellous connector-converter I found attached to the back of a completely smashed computer sticking out the top of a dustbin about 16 years ago in St. Andrews, in Scotland. [Was chatting with a friend of mine (well, err, actually, the bloke I've been putting the squeeze o...

what Richmond62 wanted Well, we'll wait and see, because Andro is currently on his lap of honour : currently on the bus between Wincanton, Somerset (Granny and Granddad) and London Hammersmith to take the Victoria to Whitstable train (Aunty), followed in a few days by Gatwich - Munich (older brothe...

late 80s I would think

I live in Bulgaria, and am currently attempting to connect both a BBC and a Pravetz to a valve TV from the "dear" old USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravetz_computers

That explains a lot. With My BBC Micro I'm now using one of those Retro Club RGB to SCART cables, but my Master Compact wouldn't behave with that, and last year I was using a "simple" RCA yellow cable from that connecotr into an RCA to SCART converter, and about halfway through the summer the colur ...

Thanks Mark, I've got several of those lying around.

I want to connect a Beeb I have to a telly via a coaxial cable (manky, old telly): coaxial.png HOWEVER : my bog-normal coaxial cable that I have previously used for connecting a VHS machine to that telly won't work because, on the Beeb , the coaxial connector has funny lugs on it. Would be grateful ...