Re: Asteroids mini-cab with Vectrex monitor

That is a thing of beauty.

Kevin

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Jürgen Müller <juergen@e-basteln.de> wrote:
> My first post to the list – but I have spent quite a bit of time reading the
> archives over the last few months!
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> 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…
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> 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!
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> Regards from Hamburg, Germany –
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> Juergen
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Received on Mon Feb 25 03:15:50 2013