First the simple answer, is the brightness set high enough?
solarfox@texas.net wrote:
> Just came back from the Dallas auction with a Cinematronics STAR CASTLE
>with an interesting problem. The game plays fine, and the monitor _seems_
>to work... but the display is only drawing the high-intensity vectors, not
>the regular ones; i.e. you can only see your shots, the little sparks that
>chase you around, your ship's thruster flare, and so on. Other than this,
>the game appears to behave normally. (Though I'm not 100% sure about all
>the sounds; it was a bit hard to tell with all the ambient noise,
>especially when the TEMPEST behind me and the GALAGA further down the row
>both freaked out and started generating all kinds of random sounds. :) I
>_think_ they're all there, though.)
>
> So -- has anyone ever seen anything like this, and what is/are the most
>likely suspect(s) for this kind of behavior? :)
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