Re: Asteroids mini-cab with Vectrex monitor

Juergen,
        That is really cool! I have never heard of the Vectrex, not I have it on my want list for my game room. That project you built is sweet!

Chuck

On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Jürgen Müller wrote:

> My first post to the list – but I have spent quite a bit of time reading the archives over the last few months!
>
> A few years ago I bought two non-working Asteroids boards, after becoming intrigued with the digital vector generator. (I certainly had no idea how they achieved those line graphics, much neater than on my Apple II, when I first saw the game in 1981.) Managed to fix them both, built a little “picture frame” cabinet with power supplies and buttons for one of them, and have hence been able to play Asteroids on my oscilloscope. Nice, but something was missing…
>
> Over the last few months, I built a little bar-top cabinet for the other Asteroids board. I definitely wanted a real vector CRT – a broken Vectrex console served as the donor for the monitor. I think I found a good solution for accelerating the XY driver to keep up with the Asteroids drawing speed; small-signal bandwidth (rather than drive voltage) was the key.
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> I have put together a little web site describing this project, with photos of the cabinet and details of the XY driver. Please have a look at www.e-basteln.de/asteroids if you are curious. Questions and comments are welcome!
>
> Regards from Hamburg, Germany –
> Juergen
>

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Received on Sun Feb 24 17:57:43 2013