Re: Asteroids: Free Play, Monitor Problems

From: <Artfromnys_at_aol.com>
Date: Sun May 25 2003 - 09:45:58 EDT

In a message dated 5/25/2003 2:26:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
trontium17@yahoo.com writes:

> And if you play the game for too long, everything on the monitor grows to
> 4-5 times its normal size.

That is generally a failure of the stick rectifier on the monitor, which goes
from the high voltage cage to the anode cap of the CRT.

There are some safety issues involved in changing that diode - here is a
quick link to some articles explaining the procedure.
<A HREF="http://www.westnet.com/~chris/arcade/bw_vector_monitor_faq.pdf">http://www.westnet.com/~chris/arcade/bw_vector_monitor_faq.pdf</A>

Art

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