Re: Tempest CPO repro quality

Howdy,

> But what about the font difference then? You now would accept the 'worse
than
> Arial' font?

Not willingly, not for my machine. But if I were restoring one that had a
beat CPO I would certainly use one.

> Tomorrow I will check my original CPO for the blue and purple blobs to see
which
> 'version' I have...

If I recall, the differences are:

Rev B:
- The rays eminating from the center do not quite reach the outer red/white
boarder. In other words, there is a black space between the end of the rays
and the outer border.
- The critters are made of thick lines with rounded corners

Rev C:
- The rays reach the outer border.
- The critters are made up of thin, pointy lines.

I think there were a couple of other *minor* differences but I can't
remember.

> What do you guys thing what is better (from a purist's view) anyway, an
original
> CPO with wreckling at the bends (but not falling apart yet, so there are
no
> pieces missing) or an Arcadeshop Repro?

I've chosen to keep my less-than-perfect, all-too-chewed-up-at-the-bends
original CPO.

> BTW Roy, will you finish your design (The colors seem to be more vivid
anyway,
> and if this is like Atari made them as well...), and if so, when do you
expect
> to finish them? Would be a shame to throw away 125 hours of work... :) )

I may one day, but I can no longer deal with the production issues. Note
that the colors *are* more vivid. This is because this was generated from
the vector-art file. The colors I've chosen are merely placeholders that are
replaced with exact-match colors when printed.

> BTW2: How much did you get for the nice Tempest you auctioned earlier?
Seems an
> awful bad time to sell these days?

Tell me about it! It went cheap (by today's standards). It probably would
have done *much* better if it had a new CPO and marquee on it! At least it
went locally to a guy that is going to pick it up.

-roy-

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Received on Fri Nov 10 22:10:08 2000