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Any Vector Emulators that simulate glow?
SirPoonga:
Real asteroids, more importantly, on real electohome xy monitor and asteroids cab is awesome!! My uncle has one. The ectrohome monitor is BRIGHT!!!
Dave_K.:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on September 13, 2002, 11:24:05 pm ---
Real asteroids, more importantly, on real electohome xy monitor and asteroids cab is awesome!! My uncle has one. The ectrohome monitor is BRIGHT!!!
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This is exactly what I was blown away with (and serious consider buying an asteroids cab that weekend). I'm sure using today's accelorators, you can come pretty close to simulating the glow and intensities of a real b/w xy monitor.
-Dave
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Dave_K. on September 14, 2002, 01:12:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on September 13, 2002, 11:24:05 pm ---Real asteroids, more importantly, on real electohome xy monitor and asteroids cab is awesome!! My uncle has one. The ectrohome monitor is BRIGHT!!!
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This is exactly what I was blown away with (and serious consider buying an asteroids cab that weekend). I'm sure using today's accelorators, you can come pretty close to simulating the glow and intensities of a real b/w xy monitor.
-Dave
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no, I don't think you can get that intensity from a computer monitor. have you seen an all white screen (startup a neogeo game). A vector monitor is bright because there was a single concentrated lightsource. If you play asteroids with no ambient light, I think you could go blind!!! I have, I saw spots for quite sometime afterwards!!
Oh, you might want to think twice about owning an asteroids machine. My uncles hasn't run in years. It's just hard to find a replacement monitor at a resonable cost. since I live in Minneapolis, not nowhere USA, WI like him, he is thinking of letting me have the cabinet if I can find a monitor for it:)
I'm wondering, would the monitor just need a cap kit?? There is no display whatsoever so it might be something a cap kit can;t fix.
Minwah:
I just noticed that when I switch my monitor to 800x600 interlaced, white looks particularly bright (not as bright as vector, but loads brighter than normal). Dunno whether that screen mode could somehow be used to simulate 'glow' ?
Dave_K.:
When I mean simulate glow I mean exactly that through software rendering (glow/particles/etc). I don't expect the monitor to behave like a real XY monitor. I've seen plenty of new 3D games with great glow and spark effects...all rendered realtime via the accelorator card. This shouldn't be to hard for an emulator...but I guess nobody is going to make an emulator with a req being accelorator for old 2d vector games.
About your Uncle's broken monitor. Check the 2 fuses on the board. If they are blown, could be a bad flyback and/or horizontal transistor. Not sure how different these are from normal G07 tubes. Bob Roberts used to have a sale on cap kits that came with fuses, horizontal transistor and flyback. Totally fixed my blown spy hunter monitor. Check his site.
-Dave