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To be clear, the Asteroids era arcade units had microprocessors (Atari coin-op engineers tended to use 6502s then), in addition to a boardful of glorious digita
by kabdib 8y ago
To be clear, the Asteroids era arcade units had microprocessors (Atari coin-op engineers tended to use 6502s then), in addition to a boardful of glorious digital and analog stuff to drive the vector display.
- joezydeco 8y agoYou'll definitely want to read Jed Margolin's "The Secret Life of Vector Generators" http://www.jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm http://www.jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm And "The Secret Life of XY Monitors" http://www.jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm http://www.jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm (Jed was an Atari engineer during the vector era and beyond)