8 Nov
2005
8 Nov
'05
8:19 p.m.
n 11/8/2005 at 2:20 PM charlesmorris at direcway.com wrote:
Semi-OT: I have 13 arcade games in my basement, most
non-working when I
got them. The video monitors in some of them are mounted "sideways" (long
axis of the tube is vertical). These old units (early 1980's) all have the
HV generated from the horizontal deflection, naturally. So a thin white
line running vertically is actually a loss of *vertical* deflection.
Just to further confuse things :)
-Charles
Seems to me back then there was at least one vendor of a vector-scanned (as
opposed to rasterized) game. Or at least the product announcement was
made--I don't think I ever saw one up close.
Cheers,
Chuck