Re: Compare Amplifone and WG?

I'll give it a shot...

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Magiera, Joe (AIT) wrote:

> 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,

The Amplifone tube has a higher resolution, thus the vectors look sharper.

The WG XYs and the G08 both use the same tube, thus the same resolution.

In a Star Wars, an Amplifone is prefered because it appears Star Wars was
designed with the bowing of the Amplifone in mind; with Star Wars on a WG,
you will see that the sides of the display bow in (best seen in test
mode).

The G08 is (I believe) considered the "fastest" vector monitor (something
to do with the slew rate). If you put a WG XY in a G08 game, it will not
be able to keep up in some situations, and thus cause distortion.

I would think that a G08 would easily be able to handle Atari Vector games
(if range correction was taken into account), but I would be curious to
see how a G08 would hold up to the Death Star Explosion.

I don't know anything about the WG64xx.

So to sum it up, Amplifone is the prettiest, G08 is a workhorse, and the
WG is a good general purpose vector monitor.

Any comments or correction to the above are welcome, but this is my
current perception of the color vector monitors.

Mark Jenison
Received on Wed Jan 5 12:45:58 2000