Re: Colored Gels for B/W Vector Games

Nice work on the OR spinner boards, Bill!

I'm pretty fortunate that I have a good one on mine. When I did my OR
project, I actually built two from five cabinets. I started with two
uprights and three cabarets and "frankensteien-ed" the best parts
together into one of each kind. Among them, I had a couple different
kinds of spinners to choose from. One was a relatively large box,
maybe 2"x2" with very clunky action. The other was the size of a pot
(directional encoder of some sort?) that connects to some sort of
board in-between, which in turn connected to the game board. Now,
THIS spinner had a very smooth feel to it and a very fine control
translation to the screen. This is the one that's now in my upright
and it plays very well.

I'm wondering if I didn't get some of the gel values from the
Vectorlist way back when. I simply can't recall. It's been a long
time! Date on the receipt says 02JUN00.

K

On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:18 AM, William Boucher wrote:

> I use such sheets for my games as well...
>
> 71 Sea Blue: http://www.biltronix.com/asteroids_dlx.html
> 25 Orange Red, 94 Kelly Green: http://www.biltronix.com/
> battlezone.html
>
> Also, if you want to improve your Omega Race gameplay, I have
> something that you might enjoy. Check it out.
> http://www.biltronix.com/ords.html
>
> William Boucher
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristopher Sandrick" <ksandrick@fuse.net
> >
> To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:01 PM
> Subject: VECTOR: Colored Gels for B/W Vector Games
>
>
>> Hey, all.
>>
>> Just about ten years ago, I restored an Omega Race upright and
>> added it to my collection. It's been running great and has been
>> enjoyed ever since. The original yellow-tinted gel screen overlay
>> was still with the machine, albeit faded considerably. At the
>> time, I contacted a local theatrical supply house, obtained a
>> swatchbook and set to work matching up the colors (I was also
>> working on a Battlezone and something that used a blue gel...
>> Asteroids Deluxe maybe?). I bought the yellow gel, then shelved
>> it, figuring I'd get around to it someday. This week, I opened up
>> and disassembled the Omega Race to perform some overdue
>> maintenance in the course of getting the gameroom ready for a
>> Halloween party. While it was apart, I remembered the yellow gel
>> and installed it when reassembling the machine. I had always
>> figured it'd make the graphics yellow, which I guess would be nice
>> but hadn't considered the fact that yellow cancels out blue. The
>> screen always had a bit of a background glow to it, which I
>> figured I'd have to "dial out" someday (wasn't thinking of the
>> fact that vector monitors HAVE no "black level" to adjust and the
>> fact that blacklights make screen phosphors glow). Holy cow! What
>> a difference. The background phosphor glow is gone and the
>> floating effect of the graphics over the blacklight-lit cabinet
>> graphics is amazing. Really pops!
>>
>> Given this, just wanted to share the specifics (all gels are
>> Roscolux):
>>
>> For Omega Race, I used 312 Canary
>>
>> So long as I've got the info handy, here are the others I've used
>> with good results:
>>
>> Battlezone is 25 Orange Red and 90 Dark Yellow Green
>>
>> I have no idea what the 71 Sea Blue would've been for. Omega Race
>> cabaret?
>>
>> Very respectfully,
>> Kris Sandrick
>> Player Two
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