Re: Asteroids blues

Hi!

The easiest way is to take your ohmmeter and just look for the two pairs
of wires on the yoke plug. (I like to put a little mark on the plug's
pin if there are more than four holes for the wires) Then you first
reverse ONE pair, then reverse the other (test the monitor between
reverses if you want to double check progress). This holds true for XY
and Raster scan monitor yoke reversals, as well as the old B&W
monitors...safest for those of us that are colour challenged (Red/Green
deficient, not colour blind)

John :-#)#

PS: as an aside, Netscape thinks "colour" should be spelt "color",
sheesh!

Jess Askey wrote:
>
> jason Milsom wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to Drew and Simon for your suggestions with my Asteroids
> > troubles.
> > As far as the Reversing X output goes, I still have not been able to
> > accomplish this.
> > Swapping the wires (orange and black X output to monitor) didn't work
> > (blank screen, spot killer on ). 5 volts at pin 19 reversed the Y
> > (vertical) output, so then my screen was upside down and backwards. 5
> > volts at pin 16 (reverse Y on asteroids deluxe) yielded nothing. There
> > must be a way of reversing this at the monitor?
>
> I had to do this when I used an Omega Race monitor in an Asteroids. What
> you have to do is reverse the wires on the deflection yoke. There are 4
> wires coming from the yoke and going into the deflection board. There is
> a standard for the coloring I think but I don't know exactly what that
> is and I don't have schems in front of me so I can't tell you exactly
> which ones to switch. :-( If you have the schems, find out which pins
> are the X axis.. and simply reverse them.

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