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| Grasshopper:
Darius machines had three monitors lined up horizontally to form a single image. One of the monitor images was actually reflected off a mirror (a bit like Space Invaders) to enable the three images to be stitched together with no gaps showing. http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7514&letter=D I was thinking you could build a MAME based Darius machine that only used a single monitor. The game would be shown on the monitor with the image squashed up horizontally. A fresnel lens could then be used to expand the image horizontally so that it looked like you were seeing three monitors. |
| ChadTower:
I have no idea why they would design the original that way. |
| Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 30, 2006, 02:04:57 pm --- I have no idea why they would design the original that way. --- End quote --- I've actually seen one in an arcade and the design works really well. In a nutshell you get a lot more screen area to play with. |
| ChadTower:
Oh, I mean, I understand what it's doing, but there are other less failure prone methods they could have used to get the same thing. Keeping one monitor going is hard after a while... but three? And then if they get out of alignment it's all messed up. |
| Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 30, 2006, 02:09:31 pm --- Oh, I mean, I understand what it's doing, but there are other less failure prone methods they could have used to get the same thing. Keeping one monitor going is hard after a while... but three? And then if they get out of alignment it's all messed up. --- End quote --- I guess the economics were different then. 20 years ago large CRT monitors were prohibitively expensive (ironically these days you can hardly give them away). That being said I wonder why they didn't go the Fresnel route instead. |
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