RE: The long history of Cinematronics and Vectorbeam

Has there been any consideration for a z80 board with a b/w monitor? I
hear people yawning, but it might be interesting to go back to overlays
again, especially since b/w monitors have a special glowy, sharp image
quality that color vector games don't have. Maybe a Battlezone II head to
head game or something like that.

Just an idea...

Matt

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On Wed, 26 May 1999, Clay Cowgill wrote:

>
> > ""Heck, I think he should just build a whole new vector
> > game from scratch - cabinet and all"."
> >
> > This has been discussed from time to time. The design (de)volves
> > into some sort of PC with a vector generator card.
> >
> Yeah. It's just too hard to beat the price/performance you get from a
> PC motherboard. I can't build a 68000 based vector game board for less
> than a PC motherboard-- and the PC motherboard gives lots more "bang"
> for the buck...
>
> > The problem continues to be what to use for a display.
> >
> > As sources for the MPS transistors dry up, there sure seems to
> > be a need for a replacement deflection board design for the
> > existing monitors as well.
> >
> I was looking at that again. I need a yellow "MOSFET's for Dummies"
> book though. I've never had to use them except as current switches
> (like ON/OFF). I do think a vector deflection section with a pair of P
> and N channel MOSFET transistors is relatively striaght-forward
> though.... Given the right MOSFETs-- which seems to be the tricky part.
>
> -Clay
>
>
Received on Wed May 26 19:34:10 1999