Re: Firefox: Foolish or Fortunate?

I know this is drifting off topic, but I have some NOS laser tubes for
these LDV1000 players, willing to trade one for DL disc (Dragon's Lair)

Sorry, now back to the usuall material.

Did anyone express interest in my idea for testing XY monitors by
treating htem as basically audio amps? I seemed to have lost some mail,
or did it get out at all?

John :-#?#

Doug Jefferys wrote:
>
> > > I have a friend that has 3 dead firefoxes. I am wondering if it is worth it
> > > to try to piece one back together, or is that LDV player going to make my
> > > life a living hell?
> >
> > Send some mail off to Doug Jefferys. He's "Mr. Firefox"..
>
> Thanx for the endorsement. To answer the question for anyone
> else reading - yes and yes. The first "yes" is more important
> than the second one :)
>
> ObVector:
>
> ...and after having racked up scores in the 55-60K range on the
> Asteroids Deluxe machine at Union Station in Toronto, I discover
> they've replaced the unit with a Star Wars upright. Now I've
> gotta re-learn how to play *that* :-)
>
> ObTech:
>
> I like bass. I've just picked up a couple of 12" speakers for
> dirt cheap at the local surplus store, and they're definitely
> too heavy to be driven by the amps in the Atari vector games.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to go about hooking up an Asteroids or
> an Asteroids Deluxe to a homebuilt external amp? (i.e. can I
> just run it in parallel with the AUDIO signals from the board,
> or should I switch out all of the the original hardware when
> attempting to create small seismic disturbances with the new
> speakers?)
>
> Also, these speakers are unshielded, so using the other one on my
> color vector multigame cabinet will be difficult without distorting
> the picture on the monitor. Anyone know of cheap/easy ways of
> shielding speakers?
>
> Later,
> Doug.
>
> --
> Douglas W. Jefferys |
> Star Data Systems |
> Email: djefferys@stardata.ca |

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