True vectors are sharper...


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Posted by Tom61 on January 03, 2002 at 14:54:28:

In Reply to: Just a discovery about vector displays... posted by rmfx on 1, 2002 at 8:19 PM:

Sounds like the tube got broken and they replaced it with a raster tube. Vector displays tend to have higher DPI, but the circuitry can work with a lower DPI raster tube (it just doesn't look as good).

: I celebrated New Year's Eve at Disneyland last night and stopped by their Starcade on the way to Space Mountain. They just happened to have an original 1980s Star Wars vector game there. I put in a couple quarters and tried it out. I began to realize that the color vectorscope seemed to use an RGB triad just like an RGB monitor.

: This, combined with the slightly blurry vector lines, made it look much more like an image on a TV screen, even looked a little aliased! When I was a kid, I used to think the vectors were a lot sharper on these games, but I guess not. It definitely was a vector display, though -- I could even see the concentric circles being drawn during the Death Star explosions. (Damn, I wish this effect could be emulated in Mame...)

: Here I've been obsessing over whether to go for an arcade monitor that only does 800x600, thinking that it wouldn't give an accurate representation of vector games! :P I was glad to find that the yoke on the game handled exactly like my hacked one at home! Oh well... Wells Gardner, here I come!





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