RE: Tailgunner has a special monitor?

G'day Zonn,

Thanks for sorting out one of my outstanding questions! I've had a 9
pin monitor for a while, but I didn't know why it was that way? Maybe
you could answer one of my other outstanding quesitons. Why does a
Warrior power supply have a 15 pin connector?

                Steven S Ozdemir
                sso@dsc.com

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>From: Zonn[SMTP:zonn@concentric.net]
>Sent: Monday, August 11, 1997 3:40 PM
>To: vectorlist@goonsquad.spies.com
>Subject: Re: Tailgunner has a special monitor?
>
>At 01:03 PM 8/11/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>Paul Kahler wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I thought that was standard. The motherboard pattent actually talks
>>> about
>>> how to use this along with the JUMP-EXTERNAL instruction to get analog
>>>
>>> inputs. I assumed this means the signal is present from all
>>> CineMonitors.
>>> I'm sure I've seen what you're looking for, but I don't have it in
>>> front
>>> of me right now. Funny how they decided ahead of time to route the
>>> X-Position to the sound board via the motherboard!
>>
>>Ok, I don't know much, but The sitdown taligunner I have uses a
>>vectorbeam monitor. The upright uses the cinematronic one. For some
>>reason, my buddie could not make the cinematronic tube work in the
>>sitdown. Might have had different connectors or something. LAter, Bill
>
>The Vectorbeams all had 5v regulators on the monitor, the Cinematronics used
>the 5v supplied from the power supply. The Vectorbeams used smaller
>connectors for there power (9 pins), the Cinematronics used 12 or 15 pins (I
>can't remember).
>
>It's possible to make a simple Cinematronics game to Vectorbeam monitor
>adapter, since it's just a matter of *not* connecting the 5v -- you do have
>to be careful on which ground wires to connect or you might lose you
>filament volage.
>
>It's a little harder to make a Vectorbeam game (like Tailgunner II) to
>Cinematronics monitor (like Tailgunner upright) adapter, since 5v will have
>to be found somewhere.
>
>-Zonn
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 11 13:49:11 1997