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Re: VECTOR: I can see my Space War Z lines!!!


From: Paul Sommers ( )
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 23:40:14 CST


Gang and Neil,

This worked fine - Neil thanks for troubleshooting! If you fixed something -
thanks... if you didn't... wonder what happened?

Okay...back to the Space Wars monitor...

Cheers
Paul

Paul Sommers wrote:
>
> Gang,
>
> Sorry if this is a repost, but I am trying to sort out why I can't seem to
> post to the list.
>
> I replaced the tube in the Space Wars and go a nice bright picture. It was
> fine for an hour testing and then last night when someone comes over to play
> after five minutes the screen goes to max brightness and I can see the Z lines.
>
> Any idea where to look - this is the first time I've seen a Cinematronics. I'm
> assuming the problem is on the monitor board.
>
> Oh... an interesting thing I noticed yesterday when testing was the when the
> ship turned, it was never redrawn perfectly. The ship was fine facing 90
> degress angles, but the lines crossed a little when at an odd angle. Not bad
> but not perfect. I assumed that it was just because it was an early game and
> not perfect at drawing the vectors. Maybe that was a warning of what was to come.
>
> Thanks for any advice. I hope the list gets this.
>
> Cheers
> Paul
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