My Vectrex arrived

after a few weeks of waiting and getting angry at the seller, my
vectrex has finally arrived today...

while i am happy that its here now, i am also a little bit
disappointed, for i noticed a few weird things...

the display seems to be "disaligned"...

* while starting up, the square lines on the welcome screen are
strange, it doesnt look like a square inside a square, but more like
one square sitting diagonally shifted on the other one..

* the fonts are distorted, the horizontal lines are not horizontal, but
also diagonally shifted. well, most of them, some of them seem to be
fine.

* the player ship is acting weird, sometimes its "teleporting around" a
few millimeters on the screen. generally objects are jumping around
sometimes. no steady flow on the screen.

* the enemy objects are most of the time a little bit off, especially
the start of the vectorlist doesnt seem to connect to the end. this
doesnt happen with all objects though, so i wonder whats causing this..

* the worst thing i have observed until now is the starting scene with
the big mineship going downwards on the screen. well, it has been
around 23 years since i played minestorm on a real vectrex in a
department store, but i dont remember the big mine ship looking like a
pan of scrambled eggs...really completely unrecognisable...

can somebody tell me what this effect causes (yoke?), and if it is
possible to get it repaired by a specialist..

thanks a lot for any comments and advices...
Michael

>
> can somebody tell me what this effect causes (yoke?), and if it is
> possible to get it repaired by a specialist..
>

What your Vectrex is doing sounds like a more severe version of what
mine is starting to do.

An easy thing to try is opening up your Vectrex and giving it a blow
with canned air or a compressor, get rid of the layers of dust on the
circuits and chips. About 13 years ago I started up my Vectrex and the
screen was a total mess, so my dad opened up the case and the thing was
literally caked in dust. Once everything was cleared out it worked
perfectly. Give it a try at least.

Im no Vectrex expert but you could be looking at something like dry
capacitors. I have read about some machines needing to be re-capped but
I dont know too much about that sorry.

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Dogboy