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| Date | 2026-02-22 15:16 -0500 |
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| Subject | Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... |
| Newsgroups | sci.electronics.design |
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| From | bitrex <user@example.net> |
| Message-ID | <699b6419$0$27$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> (permalink) |
On 2/18/2026 7:47 PM, Don Y wrote: > On 2/18/2026 5:09 PM, John Robertson wrote: >> On 2026-02-18 11:54 a.m., Don Y wrote: >>> On 2/17/2026 11:21 PM, John Robertson wrote: >>>> On 2026-02-17 9:05 p.m., Don Y wrote: >>>>> Is it (are they) WG monitors? I would assume there is aftermarket >>>>> support >>>>> for these as they were *so* common. >>>> >>>> Electrohome monitors. >>> >>> Canada? >> >> These were the best of the 19" monitors and were used extensively by >> all US arcade manufacturers. Wells Gardner seemed to be the 2nd choice >> monitor and then others when they couldn't order enough of those two. > > I only recall using EH for vectorscan monitors. They made one that > was fast enough that you could actually emulate a raster! (but noisey > as hell when you were hammering on the deflection amplifiers) > >>>> It's the aftermarket that looks like it is stopping production of >>>> all flybacks... >>> >>> If you are doing this to maintain machines on a route, then >>> a fix may just be to pick up scrap arcade pieces and part >>> them out. >> >> Nah, this is for collectors and home owners. > > Then money is less of an object. > >>> If you are doing this to cater to "home sales", then LCD >>> upgrades may be a better route (as they likely won't shit >>> the bed and need future servicing) >> >> Yes, LCDs will work if you can find any 4:3s any more! They are >> getting expensive... > > You could always make a bezel that crops the displayed area. That plus there are GPU shaders that can emulate scanlines, color bleed, and other CRT artifacts pretty well, run the video output through some post-processing for that "tube" feel..
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Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> - 2026-02-17 18:00 -0800
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2026-02-17 19:57 -0800
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> - 2026-02-18 11:13 -0800
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> - 2026-02-22 12:32 +0000
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-02-17 22:05 -0700
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> - 2026-02-17 22:21 -0800
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-02-18 12:54 -0700
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> - 2026-02-18 16:09 -0800
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-02-18 17:47 -0700
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-02-22 15:16 -0500
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2026-02-22 20:44 +0000
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-02-22 14:17 -0700
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-18 06:38 +0000
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-02-18 10:36 +0000
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> - 2026-02-18 11:10 -0800
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2026-02-18 16:46 -0800
Re: Replacements for tube style monitor flybacks... "UFO" <techforce@nospam.gmx.com> - 2026-02-18 19:55 -0500
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