johnfl68
Active Member
Hello:
For anyone that may have done this before...
I have a Atari BattleZone arcade console. These have White CRT vector monitors in them, that are getting hard to maintain and repair.
What I am considering is converting to LASER, with Red and Green Diode lasers. I just don't know if XY scanners are somewhat directly compatible and fast enough to match what the game boards are outputting for the CRT.
Also, I would need some sort of circuit, that would create a horizontal division line, so that everything above the line would be the Red diode, and everything below would be the Green diode. Atari did a nifty cheat for BattleZone, in using a White CRT with a Red Gel overlay at the top for the Radar, and a Green Gel overlay for the rest of the screen for the gameplay. This gave you the Red and Green vectors that you see on the game, but kept the cost down with a monochrome CRT.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas on this, it would be appreciated.
Thanks!
John
For anyone that may have done this before...
I have a Atari BattleZone arcade console. These have White CRT vector monitors in them, that are getting hard to maintain and repair.
What I am considering is converting to LASER, with Red and Green Diode lasers. I just don't know if XY scanners are somewhat directly compatible and fast enough to match what the game boards are outputting for the CRT.
Also, I would need some sort of circuit, that would create a horizontal division line, so that everything above the line would be the Red diode, and everything below would be the Green diode. Atari did a nifty cheat for BattleZone, in using a White CRT with a Red Gel overlay at the top for the Radar, and a Green Gel overlay for the rest of the screen for the gameplay. This gave you the Red and Green vectors that you see on the game, but kept the cost down with a monochrome CRT.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas on this, it would be appreciated.
Thanks!
John