RE: Star Wars has malformed text

I had this problem, and fought with it for a good long time. If anyone has a
solution I welcome it. For the time being, I reduced the size of the picture
on screen, which brought all the text into line.

I swapped out the AVG board with another and had the same problem, but had
to share the same avg chip.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Shoemaker [mailto:davids@oz.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 11:40 PM
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Star Wars has malformed text

Well that turned out to be a wild goose chase... :(

Everything looked good in the section so I grabbed another AVG board and
substituted it into the set. No change in the problem at all.

So I am now wondering if I do have some kind of char vector rom problem.
Anyone know which is the appropriate rom?

The area off effect appears to be the short diagonal lines in the chars. A
B D M R W Y all are effected. The short diagonals just don't line up quite
right.

I have done the BIP adjustment and its fine. The larger char set does not
exhibit this problem and none of the other graphics seem to be messed up.
Just the small char set diagonals.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Shoemaker" <davids@oz.net>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Star Wars has malformed text

> Oh, good call. C4 appears to be there and ok but someone has replaced the
> AM6012 DAC next to it. Looks like a great place to start looking.
>
> Thanks,
> David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Werner Sharp" <sharpw@bellsouth.net>
> To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Star Wars has malformed text
>
>
> > I had a problem very similar to this and this old post helped out...
> >
> > http://www.arlo.net/vectorlist/archive/0007/0073.html
> >
> > The characters were a little screwed up but the rest of the game played
> > fairly well. On the scaling test I saw the same problem as the original
> > poster and it turned out to be a bad resistor right by C4 on the AVG
> > board. You might try checking that area and see if there's some
problem.
> >
> > Werner Sharp
> > sharpw@bellsouth.net
>
>
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