RE: MC1495's

> If someone ever builds a new deflection board for the G80, they'll
> need
> something similar. I'm guessing thats what the custom IC does on the
> inputs
> of the original G80 design.
>
On a kinda-sorta related note... I still say it'd be really cool to try
to find a modern "flat" CRT (like a 25-27" Toshiba, Matsushita,
Panasonic/Phillips, etc.) with nice black-phosphor coating and try to
drive it from an old vector yoke (or make a new one). The flat screen
might "fix" the geometric distortion like the Amplifone tube does, but
with the short neck distance on the new tubes adequate deflection might
be a problem.

> I started playing around with the Cinematronics method of
> display-correction in Electronics Workbench, but haven't got much
> tested
> with it.
>
> Did Zonn ever trace out the circuit in Boxing Bugs?
>
Not that I heard of. I might take a look at it again just for grins. I
was looking for something use one of those Atmel AVR microcontrollers on
and I was thinking of a low-rez flash converter and an AVR with a
look-up table to do correction, but that's probably a bit
"brute-force"-ish...

-Clay
Received on Thu May 14 09:37:07 1998