Re: Asteroids mini-cab with Vectrex monitor

Simply amazing... I love it!
/Tim

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Chuck <chuck@localsurfer.com> wrote:

> Juergen,
> That is really cool! I have never heard of the Vectrex, not I have it on
> my want list for my game room. That project you built is sweet!
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Jürgen Müller wrote:
>
> My first post to the list – but I have spent quite a bit of time reading
> the archives over the last few months!****
> ** **
> A few years ago I bought two non-working Asteroids boards, after becoming
> intrigued with the digital vector generator. (I certainly had no idea how
> they achieved those line graphics, much neater than on my Apple II, when I
> first saw the game in 1981.) Managed to fix them both, built a little
> “picture frame” cabinet with power supplies and buttons for one of them,
> and have hence been able to play Asteroids on my oscilloscope. Nice, but
> something was missing…****
> ** **
> Over the last few months, I built a little bar-top cabinet for the other
> Asteroids board. I definitely wanted a real vector CRT – a broken Vectrex
> console served as the donor for the monitor. I think I found a good
> solution for accelerating the XY driver to keep up with the Asteroids
> drawing speed; small-signal bandwidth (rather than drive voltage) was the
> key.****
> ** **
> I have put together a little web site describing this project, with photos
> of the cabinet and details of the XY driver. Please have a look at
> www.e-basteln.de/asteroids if you are curious. Questions and comments are
> welcome!****
> ** **
> Regards from Hamburg, Germany –****
> Juergen****
> ** **
>
>
>

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Yeah... that'l work ;-)
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