Tornadoboy
Well-known member
Has anybody ever built their own vector display from scratch?
I was poking around youtube and watched a couple of videos of someone playing vector games projected on a wall using a laser scanner and Lazymame, it got me wondering if anyone has every made their own vector display meant for a cabinet?
Here's a link to one of the videos I'm referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLtS1NIwBpU
It looks like it's more than possible given what I've seen with those videos, it's just a matter of quality and whether it's something meant to be projected on a wall or somehow contained to be viewed in an arcade cab. I wonder if it could be projected on the back of some kind of screen and viewed from the front, which is essentially what happens in CRTs? Or could it be projected on a flat surface in reverse and watched while reflected on a mirror like some arcade games?
Just food for thought, it's a fun thing to ponder.
Oh and I just noticed I've hit the 2,000 mark for my posts, whoohooo!
I was poking around youtube and watched a couple of videos of someone playing vector games projected on a wall using a laser scanner and Lazymame, it got me wondering if anyone has every made their own vector display meant for a cabinet?
Here's a link to one of the videos I'm referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLtS1NIwBpU
It looks like it's more than possible given what I've seen with those videos, it's just a matter of quality and whether it's something meant to be projected on a wall or somehow contained to be viewed in an arcade cab. I wonder if it could be projected on the back of some kind of screen and viewed from the front, which is essentially what happens in CRTs? Or could it be projected on a flat surface in reverse and watched while reflected on a mirror like some arcade games?
Just food for thought, it's a fun thing to ponder.
Oh and I just noticed I've hit the 2,000 mark for my posts, whoohooo!
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