monitor question (problem diagnosis)

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> n 11/8/2005 at 2:20 PM charlesmorris at direcway.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>Semi-OT: I have 13 arcade games in my basement, most non-working when I
>>got them. The video monitors in some of them are mounted "sideways" (long
>>axis of the tube is vertical). These old units (early 1980's) all have the
>>HV generated from the horizontal deflection, naturally. So a thin white
>>line running vertically is actually a loss of *vertical* deflection. 
>>Just to further confuse things :)
>>-Charles
> 
> 
> Seems to me back then there was at least one vendor of a vector-scanned (as
> opposed to rasterized) game.  Or at least the product announcement was
> made--I don't think I ever saw one up close.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chuck

Battlezone, Asteroids, Gravitar, Star Wars, could be any of them.

As an aside, have a look for lasermame - now *that* I want to try.

Gordon.