RE: Asteroids - very bright "laser shots"

>>>The bullets are twice as bright as anything else normally
        James G Watt

*cough**cough* Yeah, I uh.. I knew that. *cough*

My contrast had gotten bumped all the way up, but brightness was normal.
The picture looked pretty good, but I fiddled with it a bit and made it look
very nice. The bullets are still the brightest objects on the screen by
far, and the player ship and UFO's are about twice as bright as the
asteroids and high scores. I will take this as normal. I only noticed it
after playing VectorDream and MAME which have everything the same brightness
level.

The monitor in the cab (G05-801) is in beautiful shape, with no plexi in
front of it and just the barest hint of burn in.

>>>Twiddling with the contrast and brightness controls will allow you to
adjust the brightness of the shots relative to the other vectors.
        steve@coule.freeserve.co.uk

This didn't seem to be the case. Both the contrast and brightness affected
all vectors equally. The shots got dimmer and so did everything else.

Semi-related question: Is there any advantage to keeping the brightness
level low? I set it where I feel it looks the best. I seem to remember a
posting recommending keeping the bright as low as possible to prolong
monitor life. Should I turn the bright down and play with the lights out?
Or was that posted last April 1st?
Thanks to all who replied. I wouldn't be collecting if it weren't for
resources like this.

Sean McLachlan
MIS Manager
LithoFlexo grafics inc.
801.484.8503

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Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:47 AM
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Subject: Re: RE: VECTOR: Asteroids - very bright "laser shots"

Twiddling with the contrast and brightness controls will allow you to adjust
the brightness of the shots relative to the other vectors. Just make sure
that the brightness is low enough so that there is no spot in the middle of
the screen. Turning down the contrast a little should be all that's needed
in this case but you may want (need) to tweak the brightness afterwards.

With the brightness too high you'll see retrace lines but if the brightness
is correct for everything, the spurious vectors you get on asteroid
explosions are a game board fault.

>
> From: "Martin White" <martin@guddler.co.uk>
> Date: Thu 03/Apr/2003 12:55 GMT
> To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
> Subject: RE: VECTOR: Asteroids - very bright "laser shots"
>
> I would just add to this that my NOS monitor does this too... And I've
seen it
> on others.
>
> Now okay, this NOS monitor had a shot HV Diode, so I'm not saying there
couldn't
> be other things wrong with it causing the brightness issues, but I think I
would
> take it as normal too...
>
> Perhaps get a darker shade of smoked plexi? (Joke BTW!!)
>
> Martin.
>
> > The bullets are twice as bright as anything else normally -
> > sure it's not just the brightness and contrast on your
> > monitor that's out of wack? If you've got the brightness up
> > to high you will see extra vectors as the beam moves
> > 'supposedly invisibly' between point and point. It can be
> > most noticeable during explosions - all the dots appear
> > joined. Could that be the problem?
> > ---
> > James G Watt
> > http://www.kinetic-arts.co.uk
> > Part of the Video Arcade Game Collectors WebRing.
>
>
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