8 Nov
2005
8 Nov
'05
2:20 p.m.
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
8 Nov
8 Nov
3:19 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
3:30 p.m.
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.
Never saw one? What a shame.
The BattleZone emulator for Atari Home Machines was
a good substitute, better was the Vectrix/Vectrex, also a
home machine from the 80's which was an actual vector
machine architecture.
John A.
3:44 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
n 11/8/2005 at 2:20 PM charlesmorris at direcway.com
wrote:
Battlezone, Asteroids, Gravitar, Star Wars, could be any of them.
As an aside, have a look for lasermame - now *that* I want to try.
Gordon.
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
4:16 p.m.
On 11/8/2005 at 8:44 PM Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Battlezone, Asteroids, Gravitar, Star Wars, could be
any of them.
As an aside, have a look for lasermame - now *that* I want to try.
No, not arcade-type games, but small-screen personal ones. I'm old enough
to remember the Atari "Pong" and Race Car setups at Andy Capp's in
Sunnyvale (good soup there). Vectrex was the one I was thinking of,
thanks!
http://www.classicgamecreations.com/vectrex-info.html
Cheers,
Chuck
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