Re: New Vector monitor project progress

Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll just neglect that effect and press on.

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Sell <msell@ix.netcom.com>
To: <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: New Vector monitor project progress

> James,
>
>
> The refresh rate is totally dependant on how many objects need to be drawn
on
> the screen. During (many!) troubleshooting sessions with my Battlezone and
Star
> Wars, I was able to make comparisons against the display on the monitor
and the
> scope. You can definitely see a difference in the refresh rate between a
simple
> display (Battlezone high score list) and a more complex display (Star Wars
> attract sequence). When Star Wars is showing the "disappearing text" you
can
> observe a slight "blinking" effect from the difficulty in displaying all
of the
> objects on the screen quickly enough.
>
> However, there is no constant "refresh rate" that is characteristic of a
rastor
> display. A rastor display has a predictable scan sequence that doesn't
vary no
> matter what is happening to the objects being displayed. Depending on what
is
> being displayed, a vector monitor may update much faster than a rastor, or
much
> slower if quite a bit needs to be drawn.
>
>
> - Matt
>
>
>
>
>
> James Nelson wrote:
>
> > I'm a little concerned about the refresh rate:
> > If I use a non-vector CRT, the phosphors may not glow long enough to
make
> > the picture tolerable to look at. Does anyone know the refresh rate of
> > Tempest or Star Wars (and don't tell me there is no such thing because
there
> > is.) It may vary from screen to screen. If nobody knows, I'll break
out
> > the scope and find out myself.
> >
> > My guess is that it's somewhere around 30 - 60 Hz, but I need to know.
> >
> > -James
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Zonn <zonn@zonn.com>
> > To: <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 6:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: New Vector monitor project progress
> >
> > > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:16:13 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >It's looking like a good choice is a new 19" WG monitor K7000 series
I
> > think.
> > > >The specs say standard horizontal resolution of 640 I think that's
good
> > enough.
> > > >Do we need to mess with "medium resolution" monitors? I'm not
familiar
> > with them.
> > >
> > > Yes!! Medium resolution rules! And if you want the proper
> > > replacement for your Star Wars, it'll have to be medium res.
> > >
> > > The only difference (as far as X/Y goes, since scan rate will be
> > > meaningless at this point) is the pixel size of the CRT, whatever you
> > > come up with for the low res, should work the same on med res.
> > > monitors. You might want to start with low res for *experiments*
> > > since I'm sure these are cheaper..
> > >
> > > -Zonn
> > >
> > >
>
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Received on Mon Oct 18 09:03:50 1999