Re: Asteroids cocktail troubles..

From: Christopher X. Candreva <chris_at_westnet.com>
Date: Sun Nov 28 1999 - 18:32:49 EST

On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Andy Welburn wrote:

> The problem is, that the playfield is like one metre, by one metre, and the
> monitor is only showing a small portion (the middle) of the playfield. When
> he purchased it, it was fine, but after transporting it this happened.. the
> game still plays fine of course, but you can see very little :)

This is called blooming. It happens when the HV cupply is too low.

A common cause on the B&W monitors is the high voltage diode on the wire
that connects to the picture tube. Cross-references to current replacements
are available at the Atari vector monitor page at
http://www.gamearchive.com/

-Chris

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Received on Sun Nov 28 17:33:02 1999

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