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AC.:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 09, 2005, 01:16:39 pm ---
For an emulator to run on a vector monitor, you would want the ZVG mentioned above.

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Cooooool. My life now has meaning again!  Im gonna look into building a vector cab.

 I own a starwars, used to own an Asteroids Deluxe, and a Ripoff (cocktail) model.  sold asteroids and ripoff since student loans were more important at the time.  I'll be buried with my starwars cab.  But I always loved vector games.

Samstag:
Somebody has a use for 9" (or thereabouts) monochrome vector monitors?

We've got several huge piles of red, green and blue tubes at work that we haven't thrown away yet.  I'm guessing we have a minimum of 100-150 tubes. Most were pulled because they dropped below our brightness spec but even at that level they get so bright you can't safely look directly into them.  If they were turned down to a comfortable direct-view brightness they probably still have many years left in them.

The downside is that none of the electronics would be included and I'm not sure you'd be able to find coils and amps that can drive these for a reasonable price.

ChadTower:

Hrm... could be useful if local, but if all you have are the raw tubes and no drivers, not sure how useful they could be.

Samstag:
Yeah the more I think about it the less likely it seems these would be very useable.  These systems are pretty specialized as far as I know so there's not much chance of finding off-the-shelf coils and electronics.  Although if you want to buy a whole 3-color projector they're only $40,000.  That's actually pretty cheap considering we just spent about $35,000 per projector just in tubes for a competitor's system.

It's a shame.  Most of the tubes we reject are for small changes in color shading, or they can't produce a bright enough raster.  But the vector brightness is still strong enough to burn the phosphor right off in under 30 seconds at max intensity.

ChadTower:

How do they compare to the tube size for a Vectrex?

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