Re: SW Death Star Blooming

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, simon wrote:

> I noted the other day that as on most vector monitors during the death
> star explosion some blooming is noticeable. I have heard that this was
> intentional, I find this hard to believe. I just rigged up my HV probe on
> my SW so that I could read the EHT during game play. it was rock steady at
> 19.5KV until the explosion...it dropped by 4kv!! I thought as much. This
> must be due to the amount of white screen. Can someone else check their

Actually as I recall, this was on purpose. In the death start explosion the
HV is lowered to defocus the display, to add to the explosion effect.

Now this could be a case of saying "It's not a bug, it's a feature !".

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Received on Wed Mar 29 07:09:32 2006