Re: Compare Amplifone and WG?

I'll provide a few details, others can fill in the rest.

The Ampliphone monitor uses a higher resolution tube than the WG. The dot
pitch is finer. As a result, an Ampliphone display looks spectacular
compared with the WG because the vectors are so crisp and thin. By
comparison, the vectors on a WG look less sharply focussed. Though, it's
more than that, because it's not a focus issue. It's sort of like the
difference between a VGA display and a CGA display (though, not as big a
difference between the two vector monitors.) Let's say that after putting an
Ampliphone into my Tempest as a test one afternoon, I was awestruck, and I
wanted to put Ampliphones into all my vector games.

The deflection boards / low voltage power supplies of the Ampliphone are
presumably more reliable than the original equipment WG. The WG low voltage
supplies used to suffer failures with great frequency (at least in my own
collection and experience) until the LV2000 came out. :-)

Anyway, those are the details I have learned first hand. BTW, before I
owned an Ampliphone, I had a WG in my Star Wars machine. I was absolutely
BLOWN away when I swapped an Ampliphone in there. You really need to see
one to understand.

Joel-

-----Original Message-----
From: Magiera, Joe (AIT) <joe.magiera@msg.ameritech.com>
To: 'vector list' <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 1:19 PM
Subject: Compare Amplifone and WG?

>Apparently I should know this, but I don't, so can someone please tell me
>the significant differences between an Amplifone (sp?) and a WG (and
>Electrohome for that matter) vector monitors? It always sounds like the
>Amplifone's are talked about as if they're the ultimate, but then reading
>the discussions, I see stuff like "they can't handle the death star
>explosion on Star Wars", and where the red (or was it blue) chassis stinks.
>I have to admit, I saw a WG on a Star Wars with a new cap installed and
>proper convergence, etc.. I can't imagine a nicer display on a monitor. I
>also have only heard about G08's installed on Sega games. Is there some
>limitation there? Has a G08 ever been tried in a Star Wars or Quantum?
Has
>an Amplifone or WG ever been put in a Star Trek? If so, what were the
>results (visual and otherwise)? How does a WG64xx stack up against the
>rest? (As if I had one) ;^)
>
>Can someone please take me out of the dark on this? Thanks,
>
>Joe
>
>joe.magiera@ameritech.com
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 5 12:45:14 2000