Re: Newbie Couple of quickie questions

Frank Kannemann wrote:

> Hi Vectroids ;-)
>
> I just picked up a functional Space Duel and semi-functional Asteriods.
>
> I played with the monitor controls a bit and managed to get
> the playing screen into full view and the colors ok. Two questions:
>
> 1) I am getting a humming that seems to becomming from the
> monitor area (not the flo tube - because I am trying to get that
> working)
> should I be worried? The humming changes when using brt/foc/x/y?
>

It's supposed to do that.

> 2) I am going to try to do the mirror thing but inorder to get
> a good white I seem to have resort to poor sharpness or great sharpness
> and faint white. Is this the sign of a bad or going bad tube? Or more
> fiddling required?
>

Could be a bad tube, but then again it could be alayer of dirt on the
tube. If you haven't tried cleaning
it, this would be a good time.

Saw a game many years ago that always had a dim
blurry picture. Went to clean it one day and couldn't
believe all the dirt on that thing! After cleaning the
picture was bright and sharp again.

In a bar (with smoking going on) these get real bad
real fast.

> The monitor seem to be the original 19... flavour
>
> For monitor trouble-shooting on asteriods is Gregg Wockcock's the best
> document (sems to be to me ;-)? Or are there any asteriod specific
> gotchas?
>
> It passed the coin test and all fuses with ohm meter.
>
> This seems to be a pretty active maillist!
>
> Also, how hard is it to get a Sega Star Trek these days?
>
> What is a PeeCee vector graphics editor used for? To change shapes used
> in roms and re-burn them?

Probably.

> I hope these are appropriate questions for this list?
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
Received on Tue Jan 19 04:34:04 1999