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Post by gliptitude on Jan 27, 2014 17:29:30 GMT -5
Cool. Maybe I'll see you there.
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Post by xefned on Jan 27, 2014 19:08:43 GMT -5
I'll let you know before I drive over. Sometime when it's warmer. Maybe we can meet up. I'll bring your light pen! (which is still sitting on my desk waiting for me to assemble.) We can play 2-player Space Duel!  |
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Post by gliptitude on Jan 28, 2014 23:52:43 GMT -5
Whoa, I've never gotten far enough to see those enemies.
Star Wars is such a cool game, sitting right next to Space Duel there.
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Post by gliptitude on Feb 2, 2014 17:42:34 GMT -5
.. Well Space Duel will be gone after this weekend. He's trading it for Rampage and something else.
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Post by VectorX on Feb 2, 2014 19:14:48 GMT -5
Two games for that one, I guess that's about right  |
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Post by celtroniclabs on Feb 3, 2014 3:53:39 GMT -5
I was hoping you would weigh in celtroniclabs. I found the klov article, which is not meant to be this topic, but becomes so on the first page after only a few posts: forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=289684&highlight=Color+mask.. I would be interested to hear your opinions on the debate. .. I've been back to the arcade and am now certain the color machines i saw were stock vector monitors. I even saw one get installed and tested after repair. .. Like i think i said before, there were some effects and artifacts in Star Wars that pretty much proved it was vector, even though the lines in most cases looked rasterized. Also got my Asteroids stuff repaired and up and running! Mr. Salay here in Cincinnati did a great job for a great price. .. I'm not sure where you are located celtroniclabs, but I have recently tracked down some pretty experienced vector folks in my area, as well as an assortment of cabinets that can be seen. Mostly atari stuff, but not exclusively. I looked at the thread on the forum, a few days ago, and the guy that was stating that there was very little difference between a color raster and color vector monitor doesn't appear to know what he is talking about. The guy that corrected him, does. And the "mask" is called a "shadow mask", not a "color mask". A good explanation of a shadow mask and what it does (that I did not write): "A shadow mask is a metal plate punched with tiny holes that separate the colored phosphors in the layer behind the front glass of the screen. Three electron guns at the back of the screen sweep across the mask, with the beams only reaching the screen if they pass through the holes. As the guns are physically separated at the back of the tube, their beams approach the mask from three slightly different angles, so after passing through the holes they hit slightly different locations on the screen. The screen is patterned with dots of colored phosphor positioned so that each can only be hit by one of the beams coming from the three electron guns. For instance, the blue phosphor dots are hit by the beam from the "blue gun" after passing through a particular hole in the mask. The other two guns do the same for the red and green dots. This arrangement allows the three guns to address the individual dot colors on the screen, even though their beams are much too large and too poorly aimed to do so without the mask in place." Atari Color Quadrascan tubes did use a shadow mask. |
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Post by xefned on Feb 4, 2014 17:10:47 GMT -5
.. Well Space Duel will be gone after this weekend. He's trading it for Rampage and something else. Boo! I wish he had room to keep them all. Rampage machines and Something Else's are relatively easy-to-come-by. I want to start an angry petition and get 5 million signatures "DON'T SELL SPACE DUEL" but I'm afraid I'd only get one signature.  |
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Post by VectorX on Feb 4, 2014 19:12:51 GMT -5
Eh, I'm sure you could get everyone's sigs on these forums, at least |
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Post by xefned on Feb 5, 2014 15:29:10 GMT -5
It's already sold. At least he's working on getting an Asteroids. |
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Post by gliptitude on Feb 5, 2014 21:46:52 GMT -5
I will trade him asteroids for star wars |
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