Re: Multicoloured Tempest vectors

From: Jon Raiford <raiford_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 16:04:48 EST

The color purity looks ok. You are seeing only green when its displaying all green, etc. I don't think convergence is necessarily the answer, but it could be. What it looks like to me is some kind of magnetic distortion. Try degaussing the screen and see if it helps.

Jon

At 08:44 PM 3/4/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi ... Since this is my first (working) Vector game be gentle with me!
>
>Last week I bought a really nice Tempest Cabaret and it works fine, but I have a minor issue with the game.
>
>Basically the picture has multicoloured vectors, I'm not sure how best to describe this so I took some pix ...
>
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sal.a.langley/tempest/cross-hair.jpg
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sal.a.langley/tempest/red-grid.jpg
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sal.a.langley/tempest/red-blue-grid.jpg
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sal.a.langley/tempest/blue-grid.jpg
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sal.a.langley/tempest/blue-green-grid.jpg
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sal.a.langley/tempest/green-grid.jpg
>
>The colour errors are not really static, but move around just a little giving the effect of the screen slightly wobbling.
>
>I'm more than happy with the game and if this cannot be fixed I can live with it as it looks much worse on the test grid than it does on the game, but I'd like to fix it if I can ...
>
>Please take a look at the pix and advise!
>
>
>Dave Langley
>www.robotron-2084.co.uk
>
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