Aintelqa.109 net.games utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!intelqa!murray@sri-unix Tue Apr 27 22:33:30 1982 Re: The straight poop BULLpuckey! It is not true that *all colour (sic) crts have 'pixels'*. Color \vector/ graphics can be (and are) done bye coating the screen with three different color phosphors and using beam intensity to 'burrow' through the unwanted layers to hit the color phosper you want to display. It is a lot more complicated (in some ways) than color raster graphics. Also regarding the question of vector or raster graphics on Tempest, as I mentioned some months ago, I was informed by the people at Atari who design and test the games that all the games they were working on at that time ( about a year ago) were VECTOR graphic displays. I have every reason to believe that they still use them, since they had all the bugs worked out way back then. I can't imagine why they would change back to lower quality raster scan displays. Keep in mind that when good looking displays are your livelihood, the added cost is not a significant factor. Besides, in order to con vince me that Tempest (or any of the other recent games) use raster graphics, you will have to shom me the electronics. Have you seen the fireword ks display when you when? that is impressive, and very convincing. murray at intelqa ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.