Interesting use for an Oscilloscope

[rubber_jonnie]

I sometimes watch videos on repair and troubleshooting for old hardware, and happened on this Asteroids Cocktail table refurb yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9peQ7NmCqQ

The video itself is quite generic, but if you fast forward to about 28 minutes, they are using an oscilloscope connected to the X & Y outputs of the board to see the image, albeit in poor quality, on the oscilloscope.

I found this fascinating and a very interesting way to see the video out of this board and verify it has video output. Not sure if it would work elsewhere, but interesting nonetheless.

[stephen_usher]

It'd work for any vector display but not for raster displays.

[rubber_jonnie]

It'd work for any vector display but not for raster displays.

Yeah, that would make perfect sense.

[mrbombermillzy]

@rubber_jonnie . If you like that, you should check out the osc. generated mushrooms vid:



There was also Quake too:

[rubber_jonnie]

@rubber_jonnie . If you like that, you should check out the osc. generated mushrooms vid:

There was also Quake too:

Cheers, I'll have to take a look at those.

[UnderTheRain]

Can't believe I hadn't see those before they're really cool

[rubber_jonnie]

@rubber_jonnie . If you like that, you should check out the osc. generated mushrooms vid:

There was also Quake too:

Just had a look at these, I've seen the mushroom type stuff before, I think there was something similar on the CuriousMarc channel, but the Quake one is quite astounding, it's like Quake in the Matrix :)

Impressive stuff.