Aintelqa.109
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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
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